Where is The Old Hall?

The Old Hall is at Moseley Hall Hospital, Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8JL

In brief

The old hall, now a hospital. Moseley Hall Hospital is a Grade II listed building. It was built in about 1790. It was Richard Cadbury's home until he gave it to the City to be Children's Home in 1890. Made of Ashlar with a slate roof. Has a porch with 4 pairs of Tuscan columns.

Moseley Hall Hospital (September 2016). Photography by Elliott Brown

Moseley Hall - details

Moseley Hall was built in 1795 of ashlar with a slate roof in three storeys with a five-bay frontage.

It has a central porch with four pairs of Tuscan columns.

Moseley Hall Hospital (September 2016). Photography by Elliott Brown

The Grevis family had the Moseley estate after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, who rebuilt the hall in it's current location the early 1600s.

By 1768 the estate was sold to banker John Taylor of Bordesley Park.

His son John built a new house in a plain classical style alongside the previous one.

The new building was set on fire by the mob during the Priestley Riots of 1791 when occupied by the Dowager Countess of Carhampton.

Moseley Hall Hospital (September 2016). Photography by Elliott Brown

The damaged house was restored by 1796 when Jon Taylor Jnr moved in.

After his death it passed to his son James, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1826.

After James's death in 1852 the property was let until 1889 when the hall and estate was sold to Richard Cadbury MP of the chocolate making family.

Moseley Hall Hospital (September 2016). Photography by Elliott Brown

In 1891 Cadbury presented Moseley Hall to the City of Birmingham for use as a children's convalescent home, it became part of the National Health Service in 1948.

It is now Moseley Hall Hospital, described as a NHS community hospital offering general medical and subacute care, and specialist stroke and brain injury rehabilitation services for inpatients and outpatients.