Hanover House
HANOVER HOUSE, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280420
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover House
- Statutory Address:
- HANOVER HOUSE, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280420
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANOVER HOUSE, GEORGE STREET
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:
- HANOVER HOUSE, GEORGE STREET
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 91493 98170
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198SW GEORGE STREET 895-1/13/234 (North side) 16/07/49 Hanover House (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHN'S SQUARE St Joseph's Convent of the Sisters of Mercy)
GV II
Convent of Sisters of Mercy, now office. Late C18, altered mid C19, with wing of c1860 by Edward Welby Pugin. Brick with stone dressings; slate roofs. Late Georgian style block extended by c1860 Gothic-style range. C18 part of 3 storeys; 3-window range. 1st floor sill band; mid C19 cogged brick cornice and gable with slot to 2nd and 3rd bays. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches and 12-pane sashes, but mid C19 four-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Round-headed entrance to right has Doric aedicule, fanlight, and 6-panel door. Similar 4-window return to St John's Square, some blocked windows and 2 mid C19 gables. c1860 range to right of 3 storeys and 5 gabled bays articulated by offset buttresses: ground floor has segmental-headed stone-mullioned windows of 3 lights with shouldered lintels and transom: 1st floor has 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery and transom: 2nd floor has cusped lancets; 2 lateral stacks corbelled out between 2nd/3rd and 4th /5th bays with corbelled caps. Right return has canted porch between buttresses, entrance with side lights and overlight, half-glazed door. Rear similar. INTERIOR of C18 part has stair with stick balusters and open string; moulded cornices and panelled doors.
Listing NGR: SO9149398170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378419
- 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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