43a, Queen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. A Victorian Office. 3 related planning applications.
43a, Queen Street
- WRENN ID
- heavy-jamb-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- Office
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 43a, Queen Street, City of Wolverhampton
- OS grid reference
- SO 917 986
- Coordinates
- 52.58572, -2.12322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
43A Queen Street is a former Mechanics' Institute and Free Library, established in 1869 and known as the Athenaeum from 1872. It was built in 1836 and is designed in the Greek Revival style. The building is made of stucco and features a parapeted roof. It has two storeys and a five-window range, with a three-bay gabled center that has end bays projecting forward. The ground floor is adorned with flat pilasters and an entablature, while the top entablatures are found on the end bays. The windows are sash with horns; the first-floor windows are round-headed and include glazing bars, with entablatures set in panels featuring architraves and paterae. The larger central window has a bowed balcony with an iron railing. The entrances to the end bays are highlighted by attached porches, paired three-panel doors, and overlights. The building has a coped truncated gable and brick stacks. It served as an important venue for public discussion, playing a significant role in the 19th-century development of Wolverhampton.
Local climate
43a, Queen Street 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 — 3 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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