Walsal House (The Old Tea Rooms)

Walsal House, also known as The Old Tea Rooms, is a building that consists of two sections, which were formerly two separate units. The left section likely dates from the early 18th century and features two storeys plus an attic, with a façade that was updated in the early 19th century. The right section is three storeys tall and dates from the mid-19th century.

The building is constructed of rubble with a stuccoed façade from the 19th century. It has slate roofs with plain eaves and a simple chimney on the right section that includes weather coursing. The late 19th-century shop fronts feature a central recessed entrance on the left section, flanked by single-pane bays with canted returns and segmental heads. There is a modern part-glazed door with a plain fanlight and another recessed door on the right. The right section has a similar two-part shop window, supported by scrolled brackets that hold a moulded wooden blind box, and a plain fascia.

The left section has early 19th-century 16-pane recessed sash windows on the first floor, with 16-pane sliding sashes in the attic dormers, which have hipped roofs. The right section is stepped up and features single 19th-century 4-pane sashes on the upper floors, with the second-floor window being squat and positioned under the eaves.

At the rear, attached at right angles, is a small cottage that likely dates from the early 18th century, built against the slope of the hill. This cottage has one-and-a-half storeys, rubble construction, and a medium-pitched slate roof, with a rubble parapet on the northeast gable. It has a central entrance with a flat slate lintel, a timber doorcase, and a modern boarded door. The ground floor has flanking windows, with a modern 6-pane window on the left and a reduced 3-pane showing 19th-century casement on the right. The rest of the cottage is obscured by a modern WC addition. There are two gabled dormers on the attic floor with plain modern bargeboards and weather-boarding, and early 20th-century 4-pane casement windows.

The cottage has been divided lengthwise by a later rubble wall, creating two units. The listing excludes the rear half, which has been rebuilt and is open to the northwest side.

Inside the main ground-floor room of the left section, there is a large inglenook fireplace. The first-floor room in the left section has a rough beamed ceiling. The original trusses on the upper floor were of the queen-strut type, although the struts have now been removed.