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Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
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 functioned as the carriage entrance for many years but survives today as part of the city's bus station.
==Design==
The building is two storeys high and constructed primarily of grey brick with ashlar dressing. It has two central carriage arches, flanked by much narrower pedestrian arches and pedimented windows. The six-bay facade is articulated by two orders of attached columns that rise through a frieze and cornice to the first floor, where they divide six tall windows, and up to a roof-level cornice. Above the roof are two low, square turrets with round faces, one of which contains a clock.〔 The archways formerly contained iron gates,〔 which were replaced with glass in the late 20th century.〔
The building complemented the façade of the original Wolverhampton High Level station until the latter was demolished in the mid-1960s and replaced with a more modern structure, which is described as "vastly inferior" by railway historian Gordon Biddle, as part of the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line.〔
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