Lilleshall Hall

House, now National Sports Centre. 1829, designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville in Tudor Gothic style. Built of limestone and sandstone ashlar with slate roofs.

The building has a square plan with a service wing projecting to the east, comprising a basement and two-and-a-half storeys, with the service wing rising one to two storeys. It features a moulded plinth, parapet string, cast-iron downpipes and rainwater heads with cast dogs, coped parapet with corner pinnacles and gable finials, and twelve stacks with grouped octagonal shafts.

The entrance front is a three-window composition, with two large end gables and stacks positioned at their apexes. A central projecting three-and-a-half-storey porch tower dominates this elevation, rising with octagonal corner buttresses to first floor level, string courses, and parapeted gables on each face with corner pinnacles and finials. The tower contains a four-centred-arched porte-cochere with three faces, the northern one carrying two uncarved shields above. The entrance itself has a four-centred-arched doorway with two half-glazed doors, sidelights and overlight, and is sheltered by a two-bay ribbed vault. The window arrangement includes small attic casements above, second-floor two-light windows (the northern one with a carved coat of arms beneath), and first-stage cross windows. The service wing to the left has nine multi-shafted stacks. To the right stands a two-storey block with a five-window front, a small gable, and a large central tower with clocks on front and rear faces and multi-shafted stacks at each corner. A one-storey projecting block to the left has a gabled semi-dormer to its right. A walled service court extends to the far left, accessed through two gate piers.

The west front is asymmetrical with a four-window composition, three small gabled semi-dormers to the left, a projecting gabled full-height square bay to the right, and two ground-floor square bays to the left. A small square gazebo stands to the left with semi-circular moulded arched seat recesses to west and south, a coped parapet, corner obelisks, and a short connecting wall with a four-centred archway.

The south front is symmetrical, with a four-window front, two small central gabled semi-dormers, two larger outer gables, and two ground-floor canted bays to left and right, the parapets of the latter bearing uncarved shields.

The interior contains a panelled entrance hall with two shell niches. A large central double-height panelled staircase hall rises beneath arched first-floor Gothic glazed windows and hammer beams supporting a large rectangular top light with round-arched glazing. The three-flight square-well staircase features a landing, open string, turned balusters with tulip decoration, and a round bottom newel with globe finial. A series of ground-floor rooms displays rich Tudor Gothic decoration including panelling, ornate moulded cornices, panelled plaster ceilings, and fireplaces with carved overmantels.

The house was built for George Grenville, first Duke of Sutherland, who died in 1833. The building is set within formal gardens to the west and landscaped grounds.