The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from around 1725, located on College Road in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. It is built of brick with ashlar dressings and features a tile roof with brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan with a central staircase and is designed in an early Georgian style.

The garden front, which is on the left return, is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window arrangement. It includes a two-storey canted porch and a single-storey gabled wing to the right. The top is adorned with a modillioned cornice and a stone-coped brick parapet. The ground floor features Venetian windows with triple keystones above sashed windows that have margin lights. The first floor has windows with eared architraves on sill blocks and sashed windows with margin lights.

The porch has round arches with triple keystones supported by plastered piers, and a round-headed entrance with a fanlight above paired glazed doors. There is a platt band and three round-headed windows on the first floor with pilasters, archivolts, and triple keystones, as well as sashes with glazing bars. The wing has a coped gable and a segmental-headed window with a tripartite sash that includes margin lights.

On the entrance front, there is a Tuscan porch leading to the rear wing. The first-floor windows have 18th-century cross-casements with pegged wooden frames, and there is an inserted garage door at the end. The rear of the single-storey wing features a shaped gable.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase with an open string and three column-on-vase balusters leading to the tread, along with turned newels and a ramped handrail. Some windows have shutters, and the drawing room boasts a rococo plaster ceiling, complemented by mid-18th-century cornices.