IMEX BUSINESS PARK TORRINGTON INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB

IMEX BUSINESS PARK, 1-30, MOORFIELDS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293045
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: IMEX BUSINESS PARK TORRINGTON INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
Statutory Address:: IMEX BUSINESS PARK, 1-30, MOORFIELDS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293045
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: IMEX BUSINESS PARK TORRINGTON INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: IMEX BUSINESS PARK, 1-30, MOORFIELDS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: TORRINGTON INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB, UPPER VILLIERS STREET

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:: IMEX BUSINESS PARK, 1-30, MOORFIELDS ROAD
Statutory Address:: TORRINGTON INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB, UPPER VILLIERS 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:: SO9121997124

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW UPPER VILLIERS STREET 895-1/5/41 (West side) Torrington International including Sports and Social Club

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-30 Imex Business Park MOORFIELDS ROAD Blakenhall. Car factory. c1906. For Sunbeam Motor Car Co. Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roofs and brick stack. 2 storeys; 7-window centre flanked by 9-window range to left and 7-window range to right, with further single-storey, 8-window range to right. Centre has cornices to both floors, and coped parapet with end Dutch gables; flanking ranges have windows recessed between piers, except end windows. Central segmental-arched throughway has keystone and iron gates; flanking round-headed recesses have rusticated voussoirs, that to left with C20 entrance and flanking windows, that to right with flanking segmental-headed recessed brick panels; 1st floor has single-chamfered-mullioned and transomed windows, that to centre with large round-headed light, flanking 2:3:2-light windows. Flanking ranges have paired windows to ground floor with cornices over one-over-4-pane horned sashes; 1st floor has segmental-headed windows with moulded arches and keystones over casements, narrow end windows; end segmental-arched throughways with imposts and keystones, that to left with C20 infill for Sports and Social Club. Single-storey range has segmental-headed windows with imposts and keystones over tripartite sashes with small-paned overlights. Right return to Sunbeam Street has 9 coped and panelled gables; 3 windows in segmental-headed recesses to each gable, most with small-paned iron glazing; similar elevation to Moorfield Road to left of corner garage; 16 asymmetrical gables and C20 entrances and windows. INTERIOR of sheds has lattice girders on iron columns, with similar roof trusses. One of the earliest purpose-built car factories in England, also representing an important local industry. It is also one of the first to use an open-plan design instead of the C19 courtyard plan. Cars were made here until 1935, and commercial vehicles until 1960s. (Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton: 1990-).

Listing NGR: SO9121997124

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Collins, P , Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton, 1990,

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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.