Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SJ90SW OLD FALLINGS LANE
895-1/2/74 (West side)
16/07/49 Old Fallings Hall (Our Lady and St
Chad R.C. School)
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD FALLINGS HALL
St Chad's College)

II*

House, now part of school. Early C18; possibly earlier wing
rebuilt 1840s. Attributed to F. Smith of Warwick; for Sir
William Gough. Brick with stucco and ashlar dressings; hipped
tile roof with brick stacks. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys
with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded plinth; platt
band over ground floor; top modillioned timber cornice;
Corinthian angle pilasters with entablature blocks.
Centrepiece has entrance in eared architrave with keystone;
fielded-panelled pilaster strips, frieze and consoled cornice;
6-fielded-panel door and overlight with glazing bars; window
above has eared architrave with keystone with feathers, drops
and scrolls to sides, and apron with stone panels; other
windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keystones, all have
8-pane sashes with margin lights. 2 dormers, encased at time
of resurvey (1990), and 2 panelled stacks. 4-window left
return similar; adjacent gabled wing has C17 or C18 brickwork;
return has 2 projecting chimney breasts joined over 4-centred
arch into stack with diagonal shafts; rear has gabled
projection with French window with mullioned side lights and
overlight; label mould raised over panel; return and adjacent
lights; rear of main range has 2 gabled wings with brick
cornices and varied fenestration; right return of 2 bays with
C20 school wing.
INTERIOR: hall with tall fielded panels, bolection-moulded
fireplace architrave, 8-panel doors; main stair has open
string, 3 twisted balusters to the tread, moulded handrail;
dado panelling ramped to pilasters; 2nd stair has pulvinated
close string, column-on-vase balusters, moulded handrail, to
basement a blocked 2-light mullioned window with some leaded
glazing, similar window to attic; ground floor room with
panelling as hall, door has tympanum with archivolt and key,
boxed-in fireplace; 1st floor has some cornices and simple
marble fireplaces; many shutters to windows.
A good example of an early C18 house, one of several in the
borough, with many surviving interior features.

Listing NGR: SJ9291301440

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555335

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)