Madeley Old Hall is a black and white Elizabethan house, now a small hotel, in the
village
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of
Madeley in
Staffordshire,
England
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. It stands in 2 acres of landscaped gardens and is a
Grade II* listed building
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.
Built in the late 1500s, it is a timber-framed building with plaster infill standing on a sandstone plinth, originally with a cruciform floor-plan. Across the front gable of the house is carved the warning "WALLK KNAVE. WHAT LOOKEST AT".
The property was acquired in 2007 by Gary and Simon White and run as a country house hotel. It is also licensed for weddings.
See also
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Grade II* listed buildings in Newcastle-under-Lyme (borough)
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Listed buildings in Madeley, Staffordshire
Madeley is a civil parish in the district of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. It contains 38 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of th ...
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Madeley Old Manor (Staffordshire)
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Madeley Court (Shropshire)
References
English Heritage: photograph and architectural description of listed building
Country houses in Staffordshire
Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire
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