Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital
Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201801
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201801
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91939 98173
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 January 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SO9198SE
895-1/14/211
WOLVERHAMPTON
CLEVELAND ROAD (South side)
Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital
(Formerly listed as Royal Hospital)
04/06/91
GV
II
Hospital. 1845, by Edward Banks; Edward VII memorial wing, 1912. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Classical style. Formerly symmetrical range of two storeys and basement and 15 bays with three-storey, five-bay, centre and pedimented end pavilions, that to left replaced by 1912 wing of five x seven bays. Ashlar basement and Tuscan pilastrade on stone-coped brick plinth, paired pilasters to pavilion and top blocking course; centre has tetrastyle portico on antae.
Basement has segmental-headed windows with 16-pane sashes; other windows have architraves and 12-pane sashes, those to ground floor with pediments, those to first floor with eared architraves. Entrance has consoled cornice with scrolled cresting, overlight and C20 doors. Wing has similar details, but panelled angle pilasters; distyle in antis portico, with iron railings and later infill; treatment continued to first bay of return but other six bays plainer. Right return and rear treated similarly to facade, but with C20 additions, rear has Y-plan wing.
The hospital was the first major commission of a notable Wolverhampton architect.
Listing NGR: SO9193998173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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