It is notable as one of the hiding places of Charles II during his escape to France following defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

[1] The estate was owned by a Cordsall family until it was purchased by Henry Pitt of Bushby, one of the Merchants of the Staple, in 1583.

Charles arrived at the back door of Moseley Old Hall in the early morning of 8 September,[1] after the journey from Boscobel House.

[2] He arrived cold and wet, disguised in workman's clothing and ill-fitting shoes that had made his feet bleed.

[3] Charles was hidden in the priest-hole on the afternoon of 8 September while a confrontation between Whitgreave and parliamentarians took place outside the hall.

The family residence moved to Moseley Court around the 1820s,[1] which was a new Regency-style house built for George Whitgreave.

[1] The Wiggin family transferred the ownership of the Hall and an acre of land to the National Trust in 1962, and it was opened to the public in 1963.