High Hall, Wolverhampton
High Hall was a manor house within Queen Square (then High Green), Wolverhampton in England.
History
High Hall was a half-timbered manor house constructed by the Leveson family between , and it was leased from at least 1620 to 1654.
On 20 April 1654, High Hall was leased from Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham to the Normansell family through William Normansell Sr. until 1753. Under the terms of the lease, Normansell paid an upfront premium of £200 and an annual rent of £10 alongside two fat hens at Christmas and two fat capons at Easter, while Leveson retained the right to occupy any rooms in the hall at his own discretion.
Inventory records from 1780 list Peter Talbot (a mercer and draper) operating from the property, which was later taken over by James Hordern.
No later than 1821, High Hall was repurposed into an upper shop and a lower shop, and the building was demolished in late 1841 after Town Commissioners purchased High Hall using municipal funds for civic redevelopment. It was demolished to clear space for traffic flow and market expansion.
The former Wolverhampton Information Centre building was the only other building to ever occupy the site, and it was constructed between 1974–75. It was demolished no earlier than 20 November 2008.
Surrounding buildings
Directly behind the hall stood two well-known local inns, The Wheatsheaf and The Lamb, along with two substantial formal plots recorded on Isaac Taylor’s 1750 map as "The Little Garden" and "The Great Garden."
Flanking the western side of High Hall was a commercial block comprising Nos. 25, 26, and 27 High Green; a 1738 deed records the block being occupied in part by Sarah Unett and Thomas Bradshaw, an apothecary, while in 1899, the block was owned by Edgar Harley, who operated Harley’s Vaults from No. 25, while the remaining premises were leased to drapers Picken and Waring.