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Latitude: 52.597 / 52°35'49"N
Longitude: -2.1668 / 2°10'0"W
OS Eastings: 388795
OS Northings: 299920
OS Grid: SO887999
Mapcode National: GBR 13F.TG
Mapcode Global: WHBFR.PZCH
Plus Code: 9C4VHRWM+Q7
Entry Name: The Old House
Listing Date: 29 July 1950
Last Amended: 31 March 1995
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1205595
English Heritage Legacy ID: 378388
ID on this website: 101205595
Location: Stockwell End, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6
County: City of Wolverhampton
Electoral Ward/Division: Tettenhall Wightwick
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Tettenhall Regis
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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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
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