Dunstall Hall and Attached Orangery is a Grade II* listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Country house. 4 related planning applications.

Dunstall Hall and Attached Orangery

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Staffordshire
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Country house
Period
Victorian
Address
Dunstall Hall and Attached Orangery, DE13 8BE
OS grid reference
SK 190 204
Coordinates
52.78133, -1.71886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dunstall Hall is a country house built in the early 19th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a flat roof that is hidden behind a cornice and a balustraded parapet, with ashlar stacks beyond the parapet. The house has a large L-shaped plan.

On the garden front, which faces east, the house is two storeys high and has a layout of three bays, followed by four bays, and then three bays again. There is a raised string course at the first floor level, and the windows are glazing bar sashes, although the glazing bars have been removed from the ground floor. The central recess is lower and set back, and there is a seven-bay orangery attached to the right, featuring semi-circular headed glazing bar sashes.

The entrance front, facing south, includes a tetrastyle Ionic porte cochere from the 1850s, which has a parapet fretted with the inscription "IS QUIDEDIT MIHI SERVIT." Above the porte cochere, there is a tripartite sash window in the bay, which is topped by a frieze at the parapet level and a pediment that is set against the attic storey tower. The pediment displays a coat-of-arms in a cartouche. To the left of the porch, there are two windows, and to the right, there is one window (formerly two). A chamfered break to the left leads into a late 19th-century ballroom wing that has seven bays and a similar style, finished with a three-sided bay.

The entrance beyond the porte cochere is elaborately carved with low-relief hunting scenes in an Art Nouveau style, created by Edward Griffiths around 1898. Inside, the staircase, also designed by Griffiths around 1900, features carvings of foliage and zoo animals. The main hall contains a Roman mosaic depicting Cerberus, which is said to have come from Tivoli.

Local climate

Dunstall Hall and Attached Orangery receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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