Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW LOCK STREET
895-1/5/267 (West side)
20/02/87 Retaining wall to High Level Line
(Formerly Listed as:
LOCK STREET
Retaining wall to High Level line
... betw'n Wednesfield Rd & Lock St
Bridges)

GV II

Retaining wall to high level railway line between Wednesfield
Road Railway bridge (q.v.) and Lock Street railway bridge
(q.v.). c1880. For the London and North Western Railway. Blue
engineering brick with ashlar dressings. Retaining wall has
one half bay adjacent to the stone-quoined north abutment of
Wednesfield Road bridge and a further 24 bays to the abutment
of the Lock Street bridge on the north west side of the line.
Bays are defined by full-height pilaster strips on continuous
offset plinth with a moulded stone capping; cornice with
stone-coped brick parapet; plinths and cornices break round
pilaster strips. Each bay has large square panel, similar
panel to parapet. Similar to retaining wall between Cornmarket
Street and Wednesfield Road bridges (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO9186899074

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497528

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)