GRAISLEY OLD HALL

GRAISLEY OLD HALL, CARLTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205291
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1957
List Entry Name:: GRAISLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: GRAISLEY OLD HALL, CARLTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205291
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: GRAISLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GRAISLEY OLD HALL, CARLTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GRAISLEY OLD HALL, CARLTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 90524 97334

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW CARLTON ROAD 895-1/5/29 (North side) 16/09/57 Graiseley Old Hall

GV II*

House, part of school in C20, now empty (1990). Late C15 with early C18 and later alterations and additions. Brick with some plaster and internal timber-framed structure; tiled roofs with brick stacks. L-plan with later rear wing to right. 2 storeys; 2-window range to left of gable to 3-window return range; 2-window rear wing and re-entrant porch. Windows are mostly segmental headed and with 2- or 3-light casements with Tudor heads to the lights, or casements with iron opening casements. 2-window range has 3-light ground floor window with blocked entrance to left, 2-light windows to 1st floor; French window in recessed part to left, continuous with Graisley Old Cottage (q.v.); gable has plastered 1st floor, 2-light windows; large stack to rear of ridge and stack to left of gable; return has single light to ground floor, two 2-light windows and one with leaded glazing to 1st floor; porch has hipped roof, 3-light window and entrance with heavy plank door to canted angle; rear wing is higher to right, irregular fenestration of 2-light windows, and one light with decorative glazing to ground floor; stack to change in roof level. Rear: gabled wing with parallel rear range to right continuous with Graiseley Old Cottage; cross-axial stack. INTERIOR: timber-framed cross walls; C19 stair with chamfered balusters; room to right has panelled screen wall with upper turned balusters to hall, stop-chamfered beam and joists, timber-framed wall has remains of C16 painted decoration and panel of exposed wattle-and-daub; room to left has richly moulded beams and joists to panelled ceiling, large fireplace with bressummer and fire hood, rear wall has Tudor-headed entrance and exposed wattle-and-daub; rear room has moulded beam with stop chamfers, Adam-style fireplace with contemporary Dutch tiles, similar fireplace to another rear room; some wide-boarded doors with H-L hinges to both floors. One of the oldest buildings in the borough with many surviving C15 and C16 features.

Listing NGR: SO9052497334

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Legacy System number:: 378352
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.