Moxley Foundry
MOXLEY FOUNDRY, FREDERICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280482
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Moxley Foundry
- Statutory Address:
- MOXLEY FOUNDRY, FREDERICK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280482
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Moxley Foundry
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOXLEY FOUNDRY, FREDERICK 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:
- MOXLEY FOUNDRY, FREDERICK 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 91399 97936
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO99NW FREDERICK STREET 895-1/5/222 (North side) Moxley Foundry
II
Car factory for Star Motors, now foundry. c1905. Brick with ashlar dressings, plastered front; slate roof. U-plan: 3 ranges round courtyard to rear, with C20 infill. 2 storeys; 17-window range with central gable and 3 windows at each end in gable ends of return wings. Flat pilasters, cornice and coped gables with finials, that to centre with pedimented panel. Segmental-headed windows have C20 casements; central 1st floor window to each gable end is round-headed with keystone; tripartite central 1st floor window with cornice to central light. Large inserted entrance with sliding doors replaces central ground floor window and 2 to left; round-headed entrance to right with C20 glazed door has frieze and pediment over. Left return 25-window range, windows articulated in pairs by pilaster strips plus one to right end; segmental-headed windows have small-paned iron frames. Right return similar but 15-window range, higher to right end, with alternate windows and pilaster strips. Yard filled with single storey shed. Important as the 1st purpose-built car factory in Wolverhampton, a centre of the early motor industry, but following the standard courtyard design of C19 factory buildings. The company became the 6th largest producer of cars in the country; but was taken over by Guy Motors in 1928 and cars were then no longer produced here. (Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SO9139997936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378407
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Collins, P , Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton, 1990,
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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