Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SJ90SW MOSELEY ROAD 895-1/2/84 (South side) 16/07/49 Moseley Hall

GV II*

House. Early C18 with late C19 addition. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped tile roof; addition has slate roof; brick stacks. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range; later 2-window gabled range to left. Main range has modillioned cornice; quoins; windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keystones over 12-pane horned sashes; 3 hipped dormers with 6-pane sashes. Central entrance has architrave with keystone, plaster surround, frieze and consoled cornice; overlight with decorative glazing bars and 6-fielded-panel door; 2 large stacks. Addition has coped shaped gable; pilaster strips with ball finials; similar windows to main range, but 1st floor has 4-pane sashes; short screen to left has sashed window. 3-bay right return of main range similar. Rear similar, but C19 bay with C20 parapet and French window; addition has architraved French window and sashes; single-storey projection to right has modillioned cornice and quoins; 3 blind windows and window to inner return. INTERIOR: stair with pulvinated close string, column-on-vase balusters, square newels, ramped handrail and bolection-moulded dado panelling; room to left has C17 panelling with fluted frieze and cornice, cupboard with H hinges and door with H-L hinges; rear room with early C18 bolection-moulded panelling with dado rail, round-headed niche, Neoclassical fireplace, cornice round beams; room with parquetry floor, Neoclassical fireplace and cornice; end room with stop-chamfered beam; 1st floor has some 2-fielded-panel doors, architraved fireplaces; attic stair as other; C17 fitted cupboard. A good example of an early C18 house, one of several in the borough, with fine interior features.

Listing NGR: SJ9305103977

External Links

• Wikidata Q17555409

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)