Central Community Shop - Queen's Building, Wolverhampton

The Queen's Building, Wolverhampton is now occupied by something called Central Community Shop. Was previously a Costa Coffee in here.

Grade II listed building.

Queen's Building, Wolverhampton

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)

GV II

Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.

Listing NGR: SO9178398710

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Taken in: UK / England / Wolverhampton (show map)

Taken on: August 28, 2023

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Grade II listed building

The Queen's Building

Former entrance gateway to High Level Station

Wolverhampton High Level

Wolverhampton High Level Station

ticket

offices board

room

Bus Station building

Edward Banks

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company

Buff brick with ashlar dressings

Doric order with trigliph frieze

sign

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