New Hall Manor is a

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, now used as a hotel, in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands,

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. It is claimed to be one of the oldest inhabited moated houses in

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,''Walmley and its surroundings'' (Chapter II: ''New Hall, New Hall Mill and the Ebrook''), page 25, Douglas V. Jones, 1990, Westwood Press () dating from the 13th century when the

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built a hunting lodge on the site. The first reference to the site as a manor is from 1435 when by the homage in a court baron at Sutton after Sir Richard Stanhope's death, when he held it of the

. The core of the present building, including the great hall, dates from the 16th century when the Gibbons family (relatives of Bishop Vesey) were in residence. Thomas Gibbons is said to have bought New Hall in 1552. Later owners included the Sacheverells, who received it from Thomas and Edward Giddons, and the Chadwicks, who were bequeathed it from George Sacheverell. In 1739, the Sacheverells mortgaged the New Hall estate to Francis Horton of

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The buildings served briefly as a school from 1885; Lt. Col. Wilkinson restored the Hall to residential use in 1903. In 1923 it was acquired by Alfred Owen of

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and remained the Owen family home until the 1970s. It was converted to a hotel in 1988 by Ian Hannah and Ken Arkley, of Thistle Hotels. It is now owned and operated by Hand Picked Hotels. The house gives its name to Sutton New Hall ward, New Hall Valley and the New Hall Valley Country Park therein, and also the

New Hall Estate The New Hall Estate is the older of the two major private housing estates named after New Hall Manor in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands in England. The newer being New Hall Manor Estate. It was built in a number of phases ...

and New Hall Manor Estate, which was constructed on New Hall Farm, both residential developments.

Plants Brook Plants Brook (originally Ebrook, Ebrooke''The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield - A Commemorative History'', Douglas V. Jones, 1994, Westwood Press () or East Brook

used to drive

New Hall Mill New Hall Mill is a watermill in Walmley, in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. The mill is a Grade II* listed building; it is privately owned, and is managed by the New Hall Water Mill Preservation Trust. It is open to the public on Open Days, or ...

before being channelled away from the mill. The building is Grade I listed, with other Grade II structures. Bon Jovi's music video for " I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" was filmed at New Hall Manor in 1993. The exteriors of the building were additionally briefly used during the third season of TV show

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in 2020

References

External links

Hotel official websiteHand Picked Hotels websiteBritish History - The borough of Sutton Coldfield
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