Imex Business Park Torrington International Including Sports and Social Club
IMEX BUSINESS PARK, 1-30, MOORFIELDS ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378613
- 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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