Former Board of Guardians Offices, South of Manor Hospital
FORMER BOARD OF GUARDIANS OFFICES, SOUTH OF MANOR HOSPITAL, PLECK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252621
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Board of Guardians Offices, South of Manor Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BOARD OF GUARDIANS OFFICES, SOUTH OF MANOR HOSPITAL, PLECK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252621
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Board of Guardians Offices, South of Manor Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BOARD OF GUARDIANS OFFICES, SOUTH OF MANOR HOSPITAL, PLECK ROAD
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 BOARD OF GUARDIANS OFFICES, SOUTH OF MANOR HOSPITAL, PLECK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 00366 98362
Details
Thefollowing building shall be added to the list;
WALSALL PLECK ROAD SP 09 NW 7/10004 Former Board of Guardians Offices, south of Manor Hospital II Workhouse board of guardians' offices. 1898-1900; by Henry E. Lavender of Walsall, for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union. Red brick with with painted stone dressings. Slate hipped roofs with pierced and crested ridge tiles and corbelled brick eaves cornice. Brick lateral and axial stacks. PLAN: Deep rectangular plan with entrance through a tower on the front right hand corner and board room at the back on the first floor. Jacobethan style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:2:1-bay east front with slightly projecting gabled bay on right with 4-light mullion-transom windows, the ground floor window with stepped head containing shield and with shield within panel in the gable; two 2-light mullion-transom windows at centre. Tower on right corner with moulded 4-centred arch doorway with overlight of five small arched lights with stepped head above containing shield; large 3-light 4-centred arch window above with intersecting tracery; fluted frieze and 2-light window above and corbelled eaves cornice to lead-clad ogee dome with ornate weathervane on the finial; aedicule on right side of tower with open pediment and date in shield. Stringcourses at window cill and impost levels. Two small moulded round-headed dormers at front. Side and rear elevations plainer. Ventilator over roof at the rear. INTERIOR: Most of the original interior features remain intact. Glazed tile dados; joinery including panelled doors; chimneypieces; arched screen in entrance hall with stained glass; staircase with ornate wrought and cast-iron balustrade, carved newel and moulded handrail; board room on first floor with moulded plaster panelled coved ceiling and modillion cornice with egg-and-dart frieze. SOURCE: Borough Surveyor's copy of architect's drawings in Walsall Local History Centre.
Listing NGR: SP0036698362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435626
- 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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