THE DIRECTORY OF
ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS 
IN WOLVERHAMPTON


16 Darlington Street


Thanks to Western Trading Store Ltd. for permission to enter and photograph.

This shops and offices building, from the late Victorian era, presents an impressively eclectic facade, with a great deal of stone ornamentation.  But the present point of interest is the entrance hallway:

It sports a mosaic floor and tiling up to dado height. This continues as far as the first floor but no further.

The detail of the top of the wall above shows the dark brown tile rail, two bands of narrow dark blue tiles, the moulded patterned tile and the moulded mottled tiles which fill up the rest of the design to skirting level. 

The effect is sober rather than dramatic.


This detail  is of the mosaic floor.


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