Dennis Hall (Stourbridge)

 apartment building, 1770s construction, Grade II Listed (UK)

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Dennis Hall was built in the 1770s for the industrialist Thomas Hill as his house. It was bought from the Hill family by Thomas Webb c.1855, and he attached his glassworks to the rear of the property. The house served as office accommodation for the factory and as his family home. The Webb company was well known for the quality of its art glass, particularly cameo glass, where different colours of glass are layered and then etched or cut to create patterns. Glass pieces continued to be made at Dennis, despite the fact that Webb's was taken over by Crown House in 1964 and then Dema Glass and Coloroll. Production finally ceased in 1990. The site then lay empty and the building was subject to vandalism and arson attack which destroyed a significant part of the interior. In 2003-04 the building was converted to 19 flats. The factory complex, joined to the east side of the house, was demolished and replaced by a smaller extension which contained further flats, and the staircase hall was moved from its former position on the north side of the house to become part of the entrance hall on the western side.

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