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Latitude: 52.5813 / 52°34'52"N
Longitude: -2.1204 / 2°7'13"W
OS Eastings: 391939
OS Northings: 298173
OS Grid: SO919981
Mapcode National: GBR 1FM.Z1
Mapcode Global: WHBFZ.DCJY
Plus Code: 9C4VHVJH+GR
Entry Name: Former Royal Wolverhampton Hospital
Listing Date: 4 June 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1201801
English Heritage Legacy ID: 378383
ID on this website: 101201801
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV2
County: City of Wolverhampton
Electoral Ward/Division: Ettingshall
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Central Wolverhampton
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Hospital building
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SO9198SE
895-1/14/211
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
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