Pipe Hall

Pipe Hall is a Grade II Listed former Regency style town house along Hall Street, Bilston in England.

History

The first building on the Pipe Hall site was a timber-framed wattle and daub manor house built between 1396 and 1397 by the Pipe family. It was a half-timbered house with an orchard when Sir Richard Pype lived there in 1578, and it was known as "Hume's Tenement" by 1699. The ruins of the first Pipe Hall were replaced with a residential brick building during the 1760s.

The third, and current Pipe Hall was constructed around 1810 in the Regency style, and it was a girls' school by 1869. It next became the Pipe Hall Hotel. It was Grade II Listed on 20 June 1952. Around the same time it was Grade II Listed, Pipe Hall became a public house known as The Tudor House during the 1950s, and The Carousel Inn during the 1960s.

In the 1980s, the building was converted into Top Cats Nightclub and the porch was altered during this time. It was subsequently abandoned during the 1990s and was placed on the Heritage at Risk Register. It was last used by Gavin's Sports Bar until it closed in July 2009 after the murder of the landlord Swinder Singh Batth, and Pipe Hall was purchased by the West Midlands Combined Authority on 7 February 2020; it is no longer on the Heritage at Risk Register.