Queen'S Building

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