PENN HALL

PENN HALL, VICARAGE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282460
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: PENN HALL
Statutory Address:: PENN HALL, VICARAGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282460
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: PENN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PENN HALL, VICARAGE 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:: PENN HALL, VICARAGE 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 89103 95402

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO89NE VICARAGE ROAD, Penn 895-1/4/101 (North side) 16/07/49 Penn Hall

GV II*

House, now part of school. Late C17 with early to mid C18 alterations and additions; interior mostly early to mid C18. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick stacks. Probably an L-plan house converted to square, with servants wing to right. Early Georgian style.2 storeys; 5-window range. Ashlar plinth and top cornice and stone-coped parapet; quoins. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes, some with thick glazing bars; 2 small lights to right end. 2-storey porch with round-arched entrance and angle pilasters, spandrels and broken segmental pediment with late C19 sundial, architraved window above, top modillioned pediment with heraldic cartouche. 2 cross-axial stacks, one panelled. Left return symmetrical 7-window garden front has similar details; 4 ball finials to parapet, windows have keystones, 2 windows to 1st floor with altered glazing bars; entrance has eared architrave, pediment and half-glazed door. Rear has varied fenestration, some sashes with thick glazing bars and canted oriel, former entrance to right end has angle pilasters, frieze and consoled cornice; wing to left has similar details, left end entrance with open pediment; right return has gabled wing with hipped roof to left and rear wing to right, window to hall with stained glass, other windows sashed; rear wing has brick frieze and coped gable, segmental-headed windows with leaded glazing to casements and blocked entrance. INTERIOR: entrance hall has panelling said to be from Church of St Bartholomew (q.v.), bolection-moulded panels and dado rail; late C19 fireplace with painted overmantel, doors with architraves and cornices, moulded plaster ceiling. Cloakroom has Delft tiles. Room to left has some panelling and modillioned cornice, shell-vaulted niches and bolection-moulded panel over fireplace; room to right of garden front has egg and dart to cornice, Rococo fireplace with egg-and-dart to architrave, tapering pilasters with foliage and drops, enriched frieze and deep cornice; 2 doors have eared architraves, enriched Rococo friezes and cornices. Room to left has modillioned cornice, architraved windows, dado rail, architraved doors with friezes and cornices, marble fireplace with bolection-moulded architrave, frieze and modillioned cornice, Delft tiles, overmantel painting. Stair hall with bolection-moulded panelling, cornice and star vault with rich plaster wreath to lantern, open stair well now filled with C20 lift, some remaining twisted balusters to landing. First floor has doors with one large over 4 small panels; room with C17 panelling and moulded plaster frieze and ceiling, some re-used panelling, including linenfold, to fireplace. A good example of an early to mid C18 house, one of several in the borough, with fine interior features. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.323-4).

Listing NGR: SO8910395402

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Legacy System number:: 378621
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 323-324

Legal

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