Mill Street Depot
MILL STREET DEPOT, CORN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201805
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Street Depot
- Statutory Address:
- MILL STREET DEPOT, CORN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201805
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Street Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL STREET DEPOT, CORN HILL
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:
- MILL STREET DEPOT, CORN HILL
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 92184 98743
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO99NW CORN HILL 895-1/5/214 (East side) Mill Street Depot
GV II
Railway goods depot, now offices and workshops. 1849-52 with later alterations. For Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and London and North Western Railway. Brick with ashlar dressings; felt roofs. 2-storey range has single-storey range under double-span roof to east; basement under both. Bays articulated by pilaster strips. 2-storey range has top cornice, parapet, and coped gables; north elevation of 9 bays; paired segmental-headed windows, now blocked, have cogged impost bands; 2 round-headed entrances, also blocked; 1st floor panels; 2 loading doors, now blocked; east end and south elevation similar; south elevation has small late C19 and C20 additions; entrances have paired timber doors; some inserted windows. Single-storey range has 9-bay north elevation; blind round-headed arches have imposts and keystones; elliptical-headed entrance to 4th bay now blocked; west end has central entrance, now blocked with inserted door; flanking blind arches and end entrances, that to left with sliding door, that to right blocked with inserted window; south elevation similar to north, but much altered; some bays have inserted girders with C20 infill beneath; some inserted windows. INTERIOR well-preserved: basement, originally bonded store, has segmental arches to cross walls and raking buttresses to side walls; 2-storey range has flanged round iron columns; crane and 2 hydraulic ramps; 1st floor has original partitioned office; iron roof trusses have diagonal struts and tie bars; single-storey range has crane by lower channel to north; round iron columns; timber roof trusses of collar and tie beams with upper king posts; transverse beams linking tie beams. A good and well-preserved example of an early railway goods depot. (Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SO9218498743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378395
- 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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