Gardens · West Midlands
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
John M — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Queen's Building, Wolverhampton is a garden of interest in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Queen's Building is a grade II listed building in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. Built in 1849 as the carriage entrance to Wolverhampton railway station, it opened three years before the station itself. The two buildings were built in a similar style, but the station building was replaced in the 1960s. The Queen's Building has not been used as the carriage entrance for many years but functions as part of the city's bus station up to date.
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Background
History
The building was built by Edward Banks in 1849 for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway as the carriage entrance to Wolverhampton High Level railway station. The carriage building was opened to passengers on 1 October 1849. With the amalgamation of the railway companies in the 1840s, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway became part of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the High Level station, and thus the Queen's Building, became jointly owned by the GWR and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) until 1859, by which time the GWR had built Wolverhampton Low Level railway station and the LNWR took sole control. A single-storey extension, built in a sympathetic style to the original,…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.5861, -2.1227
- Address
- Queen Street, Wolverhampton, England
Sources
- wikidata: Q18297847 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Queen's Building, Wolverhampton (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen's Building, Wolverhampton?
- Queen's Building, Wolverhampton is in West Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.5861°, -2.1227°.
- Who owns Queen's Building, Wolverhampton?
- Queen's Building, Wolverhampton is owned by | current_tenants = National Express West Midlands.