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IoE Number:
219101
Location:
GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALLS AT RUSHALL HALL, LEIGH ROAD (off)
WALSALL, WALSALL, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
19 October 1951
Date of last amendment:
31 July 1986
Grade
II*
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WALSALL MB LEIGH ROAD (off)
SP 09 NW
Rushall
7/59 Gatehouse and curtain
walls at Rushall Hall
(formerly listed as
19.10.51 Ruins of Rushall Hall)
GV II*
Curtain walls of c1300 with gatehouse of c1500, incorporating gateway of
c1300, with second floor added and windows altered c1600, partly demolished
c1830-40. Gatehouse of limestone rubble with some sandstone dressings and
brick flues. One storey, with lower part of first floor walls surviving
and with part of south wall surviving to above second floor level. West
wall battered, with string course above chamfered gateway with segmental
arch. Above the arch, and below the lower part of a blocked window opening,
is the carved shield of arms of the Harpur family, who owned Rushall Hall
from 1430 until 1540. The east wall has a gateway chamfered in two orders,
with segmental arch and hood. Interior: the passageway has a rubble barrel-
vault. In the north-east corner is a circular stair to the first floor.
In the south wall is a, chamfered fireplace with shallow segmental head. At
the upper level the south wall has two moulded fireplaces, formerly serving
the first and-the second floors. In the north-west corner are the remains
of a garderobe. The curtain walls are of limestone rubble and enclose a
rectangular area of 5383 square metres used as a garden. They survive to
a height of over six metres and are mostly crenellated. At the north-west
corner of the site they are incorporated into Rushall New Hall (qv).
Fireplaces, presumably heating now-demolished buildings inside the enclosure,
are built into the walls. They are chamfered, with canted herds and some
brick dressings: to each side of the gatehouse one is visible, and there is
a further one in the south wall. The gatehouse is described and illustrated
in Baker, NJ, "The Gatehouse of Rushall Hall, Staffs", South Staffordshire
Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, Vol XXIII, 1981-2, pp 79-
88. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County no (Staffs) 25).