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Listing: Dated 1747 with early C19 alterations. Central entrance - C20
Doric porch. Datestone under eaves inscribed SR/R: W 1747 (believed to be Sir
Richard Wrottesley).
Comment: Take away the porch and you have an straightforward, stylish
Georgian red brick house. For the Wrottesley family see Geoffrey Hancock, A
Tettenhall History, Broadside, 1991, passim, with Sir Richard at p.31. He had a
hot headed youth (taking after his early forebears) but later took Holy Orders
and became Chaplain to George III and Dean of Worcester. His family had been
major landowners in the area for centuries and he improved matters further by
marrying into the Gower family. What part this house played in all this is not
known but the Wrottesleys were great fighters, not great builders and there must
have been some special consideration for Sir Richard to have ventured on this
house, which was, of course, quite small compared with what he could have
afforded to build.
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