Royal London Mutual Insurance Building is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1975. Office building. 2 related planning applications.
Royal London Mutual Insurance Building
- WRENN ID
- waiting-basalt-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1975
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Royal London Mutual Insurance Building, Licchfield Street, City of Wolverhampton, WV1 1LX
- OS grid reference
- SO 915 987
- Coordinates
- 52.58693, -2.12603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal London Mutual Insurance Building is an office building with shop units dating to 1902, designed by Essex, Nichol and Goodman. It is constructed of ashlar and has a slate roof. The building is in an Edwardian Baroque style, notable for its rich carved decoration.
The main facade, facing Lichfield Street, is three storeys tall with an attic and a central tower. The 7-bay rounded section facing Princes Square mirrors a similar 3-bay facade on Lichfield Street, with a curved corner leading to Lichfield Passage. The ground floor features rusticated piers and an entablature, while the 1st and 2nd floors have a giant Ionic colonnade. The pavilion roof includes dormers and top railings. Later shop fronts are set within the piers of the ground floor, incorporating cherub panels and a panelled frieze with cartouches. The 1st and 2nd floors boast canted bay windows, with a central round-headed window on the 1st floor and a 1:2:1 arrangement of round-headed windows with 10-pane sashes on the 2nd floor. The attic has 2-light dormer windows framed by aedicules, featuring cartouches in open pediments with urn finials. The central bay has a round-headed entrance flanked by squat, tapering antae, with a frieze above bearing cartouches with the letters EL/FS and A/1902/D. Sashes, some with 12 panes, are found throughout the upper floors. A balustraded parapet with urn finials tops the building.
The tower features hollow-chamfered angles, bulls’ eyes with giant keystones, and open pediments. Aedicules with open pediments and windows with giant keystones sit below, topped by a cupola and finial. The Lichfield Street facade is similar but has a 6-window attic with a central gable incorporating 2 round-headed windows, coped gable ends with stacks. The curved corner is simpler, with 2-light windows and dormers with segmental pediments.
A plainer four-storey, attic range fronts Wulfruna Street, comprising four bays, and featuring an entablature supported by mask-corbel to the 2nd floor. The building has 3-light windows, those to the 1st floor with transoms and those to the 3rd floor with round-headed lights. The attic features straight-headed dormers.
Local climate
Royal London Mutual Insurance Building receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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