Park Hall Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
Park Hall Hotel
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keep-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Hall Hotel is a house that was later converted into a Roman Catholic school and is now a hotel. It was built in 1705, with additions made in the late 18th century, and underwent alterations including window changes around 1836, as well as 20th-century modifications. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs with brick stacks, showcasing an early Georgian style.
The hotel has three storeys and features a symmetrical five-window range, flanked by two-storey three-window ranges. The left wing has a three-window extension, while the right wing includes a 20th-century eleven-window extension. The central range is adorned with platt bands over the ground and first floors, a top cornice, and a hipped roof, with quoins at the corners.
The entrance is framed by a bolection-moulded eared architrave within an aedicule, supported by Doric pilasters, and features an entablature decorated with a cherub, vine trail, and 17th-century style masks, topped by a broken segmental pediment. The four-panel door is complemented by a first-floor window set in an eared architrave with a moulded sill and apron, also within an aedicule, but this time with Ionic pilasters and a pulvinated frieze. The second-floor window is similarly styled with a bolection-moulded eared architrave, mask, and keystone, all within an aedicule with Corinthian pilasters. Other windows throughout the building have rubbed brick flat arches with fielded-panel keystones and feature four-pane horned sashes with moulded frames.
The wings maintain similar architectural details, with the left wing's entrance featuring a cornice, while the right wing's 20th-century extension has a projecting ground floor. The rear of the building includes a large single-storey extension from the 20th century, with narrow sashed windows above, and the returns of the central range display the heads of the second-floor windows.
The interior has been significantly altered. This building is one of several notable early 18th-century houses in the borough and is historically important as an early Catholic school founded by Bishop Richard Challoner. It has connections to many prominent Catholics from the 18th and 19th centuries, including actor John Kemble and Bishop John Milner.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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