Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital

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WOLVERHAMPTON CLEVELAND ROAD (South side) Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital

(Formerly listed as Royal Hospital)

04/06/91

GV II

Hospital. 1845, by Edward Banks; Edward VII memorial wing, 1912. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Classical style. Formerly symmetrical range of two storeys and basement and 15 bays with three-storey, five-bay, centre and pedimented end pavilions, that to left replaced by 1912 wing of five x seven bays. Ashlar basement and Tuscan pilastrade on stone-coped brick plinth, paired pilasters to pavilion and top blocking course; centre has tetrastyle portico on antae.

Basement has segmental-headed windows with 16-pane sashes; other windows have architraves and 12-pane sashes, those to ground floor with pediments, those to first floor with eared architraves. Entrance has consoled cornice with scrolled cresting, overlight and C20 doors. Wing has similar details, but panelled angle pilasters; distyle in antis portico, with iron railings and later infill; treatment continued to first bay of return but other six bays plainer. Right return and rear treated similarly to facade, but with C20 additions, rear has Y-plan wing.

The hospital was the first major commission of a notable Wolverhampton architect.

Listing NGR: SO9193998173