The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205595
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205595
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, COLLEGE 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 88795 99920
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SJ8899 COLLEGE ROAD, Tettenhall 895-1/10/123 (South side) 29/07/50 The Old House (Formerly Listed as: Headmaster's House, Tettenhall College)
II*
House. c1725. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan with central stair. Early Georgian style. Garden front to left return of 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-storey canted porch and single-storey gabled wing to right. Top modillioned cornice and stone-coped brick parapet. Ground floor has Venetian windows with triple keystones over sashed windows with margin lights; 1st floor has windows with eared architraves on sill blocks and sashed windows with margin lights. Porch has round arches with triple keystones on plastered piers; round-headed entrance with fanlight over paired glazed doors; platt band and 3 round-headed 1st floor windows with pilasters, archivolts and triple keystones; sashes with glazing bars; end stacks. Wing has coped gable and segmental-headed window with tripartite sash with margin lights. Entrance front has Tuscan porch to rear wing; 1st floor windows with C18 cross-casements with pegged wooden frames; inserted garage door to end; rear of single-storey wing has shaped gable. INTERIOR: open-well stair with open string and 3 column-on-vase balusters to the tread, turned newels and ramped handrail; some shuttered windows; rococo plaster ceiling to drawing room; mid C18th cornices.
Listing NGR: SO8879599920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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