Description

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WALSALL PLECK ROAD
SP 09 NW
7/10004
Former Board of
Guardians Offices,
south of Manor Hospital
II
Workhouse board of guardians' offices. 1898-1900; by Henry E. Lavender of Walsall, for the
Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union. Red brick with with painted stone dressings.
Slate hipped roofs with pierced and crested ridge tiles and corbelled brick eaves cornice. Brick
lateral and axial stacks. PLAN: Deep rectangular plan with entrance through a tower on the
front right hand corner and board room at the back on the first floor. Jacobethan style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:2:1-bay east front with slightly projecting
gabled bay on right with 4-light mullion-transom windows, the ground floor window with
stepped head containing shield and with shield within panel in the gable; two 2-light
mullion-transom windows at centre. Tower on right corner with moulded 4-centred arch
doorway with overlight of five small arched lights with stepped head above containing shield;
large 3-light 4-centred arch window above with intersecting tracery; fluted frieze and 2-light
window above and corbelled eaves cornice to lead-clad ogee dome with ornate weathervane
on the finial; aedicule on right side of tower with open pediment and date in shield.
Stringcourses at window cill and impost levels. Two small moulded round-headed dormers at
front. Side and rear elevations plainer. Ventilator over roof at the rear. INTERIOR: Most of
the original interior features remain intact. Glazed tile dados; joinery including panelled doors;
chimneypieces; arched screen in entrance hall with stained glass; staircase with ornate wrought
and cast-iron balustrade, carved newel and moulded handrail; board room on first floor with
moulded plaster panelled coved ceiling and modillion cornice with egg-and-dart frieze.
SOURCE: Borough Surveyor's copy of architect's drawings in Walsall Local History Centre.

Listing NGR: SP0036698362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544463

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