Abberton Hall is a small country house in the village of
Abberton,
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...
,
England
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, near
Pershore
Pershore is a market town in the Wychavon district in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. The town is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2011 census, the population was 7,125. The town i ...
.
History
It is an irregular two-story house, faced with modern brick, with at its core the timber-framed house of the
Sheldon family, with a brick facade and a massive stone
chimneybreast (dated 1619). Abberton Hall was the seat of
William Laslett
William Emmerson Kendrick Laslett (1799 – 26 January 1884) was an English lawyer, landowner and Member of Parliament.
Early life
Christened in Worcester on 14 October 1799, he was the eldest son of Thomas Emmerson Laslett (1765-1816), a Worce ...
, Member of Parliament (MP) for
Worcester
Worcester may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England
** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament
* Worcester Park, London, Englan ...
. This was also the home of
Benjamin Gibbon (born 1914), who created murals in the garden loggia, dated to 1937.
References
Biography
*J.B. Burke, ''A Visitation of Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland'', 1852–55, ii, p. 175
*''Country Life'', lxxxi, p. 24
*R. Lockett, ''A survey of historic parks and gardens in Worcestershire'', 1997, p. 3
*Sir N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Worcestershire, 1968, p. 68
*P. Reid, ''Burke's & Savill's Guide to Country Houses: vol. 2, Herefordshore, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire'', 1980 p. 191 (contains illustration)
Attribution
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External links
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Country houses in Worcestershire
Grade II listed buildings in Worcestershire
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