It is in Priory Park, and is a Grade II listed building.

The priory and its estate had been granted, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, to Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley in 1554.

[2] John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, the later inheritor of the estate, built the hall on a site north-west of the remains of the priory.

[2] The hall was built in Tudor style, with battlements and corner turrets.

[1] It was intended as the family residence in Dudley; it became the home of the Earl's mining agent, Francis Downing.