Hilton Park Hall

Hilton Park Hall is an 18th century mansion house now in use as an Office and Business Centre at Hilton, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

Originally the home of the Swinnerton family the manor was acquired by the Vernons by marriage in 1547. The house was built, in early Georgian style, to replace an earlier manor house, in about 1720 by Henry Vernon, High Sheriff of Staffordshire. The whole is of three storeys. The centre block of five bays, of which the centre carries decorated pilasters and an ornamented pediment, is flanked by two three-bayed wings also having decorated pilasters.

The Vernon family erected an unusual hexagonal tower in the grounds, which they dedicated to the memory of Admiral Edward Vernon and his capture of Portobelo, Panama from the Spanish in 1739. The monument is Grade II listed.

The family sold the estate to the nuns of the Order of St Joseph for use as a convent in 1955.Between 1986 and 1999 it was occupied by Tarmac Plc as a corporate headquarters. It is now a Commercial Office and Business Centre

References

* [http://www.hiltonhall.co.uk/history.htm History of Hilton]