Old Fallings Hall (Our Lady And St Chad Roman Catholic School)

Old Fallings Hall, now part of Our Lady and St Chad Roman Catholic School, is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a possible earlier wing rebuilt in the 1840s. It is attributed to F. Smith of Warwick and was originally built for Sir William Gough. The house is constructed of brick with stucco and ashlar dressings, and has a hipped tile roof with brick stacks. It is an example of Early Georgian style architecture.

The main block is two storeys with an attic, with a symmetrical five-window facade. It features a moulded plinth, a platt band over the ground floor, a top modillioned timber cornice, and Corinthian angle pilasters with entablature blocks. The central entrance is set within an eared architrave with a keystone; the door has fielded-panelled pilaster strips, a frieze, and a consoled cornice. Above the entrance is a window with an eared architrave and keystone, decorated with feathers, drops and scrolls to the sides, and an apron with stone panels. Other windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keystones and 8-pane sashes with margin lights. There are two dormers, which were encased during a resurvey in 1990, and two panelled stacks. A four-window return is similar in style, while an adjacent gabled wing has brickwork from the 17th or 18th century. This wing has two projecting chimney breasts joined over a four-centred arch leading to an stack with diagonal shafts. The rear has a gabled projection with a French window and mullioned side lights and overlight, with a label mould raised over a panel, as well as returns with further windows. The right return has two bays with a 20th-century school wing.

Inside, the hall features tall fielded panels, a bolection-moulded fireplace architrave, and eight-panel doors. The main staircase has an open string, three twisted balusters per tread, and a moulded handrail. The dado panelling ramps to pilasters, and a second staircase has a pulvinated close string, column-on-vase balusters, and a moulded handrail. A blocked, two-light mullioned window with some leaded glazing is located in the basement, with a similar window in the attic. One ground floor room has panelling similar to the hall, with a door featuring a tympanum with archivolt and key, and a boxed-in fireplace. The first floor has some cornices and simple marble fireplaces, and most windows have shutters.

Old Fallings Hall is a good example of an early 18th-century house, notable among several in the borough for its surviving interior features.