- Whitmore Hall
Whitmore Hall is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family at
Whitmore, Staffordshire .. AGrade I listed building , the hall was designated a house of outstanding architectural and historical interest and is a fine example of a smallCarolinian style manor house.The Whitmore estate was acquired by the Mainwaring family when Edward Mainwaring of Biddulph married the Whitmore heiress Alice Boghay in the
16th century . Their descendants have owned the estate ever since. The Mainwarings of Whitmore are descended from the Mainwarings of Over-Peover, Cheshire (see the 17th centuryMainwaring Baronets ). Five Edward Mainwarings served asHigh Sheriff of Staffordshire between 1645 and 1767.The hall built in red brick in the reign of Charles II and completed about 1676 has a ballustraded frontage of nine bays and two storeys. There is an unusually well preserved Elizabethan stable block.
The house was leased out from about 1863 until the family returned to occupation in the 1920s.One of the tenants, pottery manufacturer
Thomas Twyford occupied the hall for 30years.The hall is a private residence . It is open to the public only on two days a week between May and August.
References
* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=362736&mode=quick Images of England:Whitmore Hall]
External links
[http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/house-staffordshire-whitmorewhall.htm Whitmore Hall]
[http://www.thepotteries.org/people/twyford_thos.htm Thomas Twyford] ]
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