Prospect House
PROSPECT HOUSE, 34, MOUNT PLEASANT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282476
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, 34, MOUNT PLEASANT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282476
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, 34, MOUNT PLEASANT
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:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, 34, MOUNT PLEASANT
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 95123 96684
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9596 MOUNT PLEASANT, Bilston 895-1/15/21 (North West side) No.34 Prospect House
II
Office of Wolverhampton District Electric Tramways Ltd, now office. 1902. Brick with terracotta dressings; parapetted roof. Right-angle plan. 2 storeys, gable facing. Plinth; brick frieze and dentilled terracotta cornice over ground floor; top terracotta frieze, cornice and terracotta-coped brick ramped parapet and gable with keyed roundel; rusticated end pilasters with scroll tops. Windows have rusticated jambs and sashes with small-paned upper sashes; ground floor has segmental-headed window with imposts and keystone; 1st floor has tripartite window; segmental-headed entrance has rusticated jambs and brick rusticated cambered arch, overlight and 6-panel door; frieze over ground floor has panel with initials: WDET and wheel within magnet. Right return similar; entrance and 1st floor tripartite window and flanking windows. Wolverhampton District Tramways Ltd electrified the existing horse tramway routes in the area; the site comprised the offices, a transformer station (the existing but much altered building to the left), and the repair and paint shops, (demolished). The depot was converted for the use of trolley buses, 1928-30, and closed, 1965. (Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SO9512396684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378496
- 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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