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Listing: Grade II*. 1815. First storey added for Assembly Rooms in
1829 by L. Vulliamy. Wolverhampton Council first met here, 22 May 1848.
Pevsner: dates from 1813 and was given its upper floor in 1829 by
Vulliamy. It was built as a library and assembly room.
Comment: Originally built by public subscription as a library and
newsroom. The assembly Room on the upper floor was added later. It became the
county court building and this is the name by which it is best remembered. When
the county court moved to the new combined courts building, this building was
put on the market and became a night club, called Chancellors, and currently
goes under the name of Walkabout. The main court room furniture was given by the
purchasers to Wolverhampton Law School, at the University, where it was
reassembled as a moot court.
This view of the rear of the building shows that the
assembly rooms, added on top of the then existing building, is held up on
four thin cast iron columns. Why was this done?
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