Haseley Manor is a Grade II-listed English country house in

Haseley Haseley is a small village and former civil parish in Warwickshire, England. It is four miles north-west of the county town of Warwick and nine miles (14.5 km) south-east of Solihull, now in the parish of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley and Wroxa ...

, Warwickshire, England.

Architecture

The house was built from 1875 to 1878, to designs by the architect William Young, for Alfred Hewlett, a coal merchant from

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. It has walls of rock-faced stone and plain tile roofs, and is in the

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and Elizabethan styles, including a Gothic

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. It has been Grade II listed since January 1987, giving it legal protection from unauthorised alterations or demolition.

Uses

In 1930, the house was acquired by the Birmingham Society for the Care of Invalid Children, and put to use as a convalescent home and hospital school for girls. It was then purchased by Birmingham Education Authority and, from 1941, became Haseley Hall Residential Open-Air School For Boys, and was used as a

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and

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. At some subsequent point it was owned by

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. By the mid-1960s, it was being used as staff college by the British Motor Corporation, and its nationalised successor,

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. It was next used as a business and conference centre. It was acquired subsequently by Spitfire Bespoke Homes who subdivided and converted it into a number of private residences, completed circa 2018, including thirteen one, two and three-bedroom apartments. An additional nine residences, including three garden villas and five terraced houses, were created in its grounds. The project architects were Lapworth Architects.

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