QUEEN'S BUILDING

QUEEN'S BUILDING, PIPERS ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279620
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S BUILDING
Statutory Address:: QUEEN'S BUILDING, PIPERS ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279620
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN'S BUILDING, PIPERS ROW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: QUEEN'S BUILDING, PIPERS ROW

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 91783 98710

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NE PIPERS ROW 895-1/12/278 (East side) 03/02/77 Queen's Building (Formerly Listed as: HORSLEY FIELDS (North side) Former Railway Ticket Office)

GV II

Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October, 1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and 5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details; end bays have round-headed openings with architraves, spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.

Listing NGR: SO9178398710

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Legacy System number:: 378527
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.