Former University of Wolverhampton Annexe

The building is a former post office, later used as an annexe to the University of Wolverhampton (then Wolverhampton Polytechnic), constructed in 1895. It is built of dark red brick with yellow terracotta dressings and a slate roof, designed in a Northern Renaissance style. The building is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and thirteen bays; bays two to four and ten to twelve project forward under Dutch gables. The central entrance bay also projects.

The terracotta details include a plinth, sill courses, flush bands, a ground floor cornice, and a top entablature with a balustraded parapet. The projecting bays feature round-headed windows with panelled pilasters and archivolts with keys; flanking windows have architraves, top festooned panels and segmental pediments. A similar architraved window is present in the thirteenth bay. The central bays have paired round-headed ground floor windows with enriched spandrels; the first floor has cross-mullioned two-light windows with pilasters, friezes and cornices, with the central and projecting bays framed by Ionic pilastrades with plinths and festooned friezes. Attic lights are paired and round-headed, featuring fluted colonnettes, pilasters, panelled friezes, cartouches to the pediments, and a flat-topped dormer in the first bay.

The central entrance has a porch with Corinthian half-columns, an enriched frieze and cornice, a parapet with an enriched date panel under a consoled pediment with a cartouche; flanking lions hold Royal arms. The entrance to the first bay has an architrave, overlight and consoled triangular pediment. The parapet has a central panel with Royal arms and a shell pediment. An octagonal cupola with round-arched openings is topped with banded stacks. A similar detached return is present on Princess Street. The rear elevation is plain with open-fronted bays.

The interior has been altered; the main hall features Ionic pilasters.