Whateley Hall (not to be confused with Whately Hall in

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) was a

stately home An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...

in the Warwickshire countryside near

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. The house was owned by the owners of

Barrells Hall Barrells Hall is a large house in the Warwickshire countryside near Henley-in-Arden. The nearest village is Ullenhall, which for many years was the estate village, large parts of it having been built by the owners of Barrells Hall, the Newtons, on ...

, the Newtons of

Glencripesdale Estate The Glencripesdale Estate is a country estate situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Today, the Isle of Càrna is the last remaining part of a once huge acre deer forest, river and grousemo ...

. A housing estate was built on the house and grounds in 1935 when it was demolished

History

The house was set over three main levels and built in the classical

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influenced style with

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s and pediment and set in gardens and pleasure grounds The architect of the house and its date is unknown with very little documentation existing regarding it The Newtons, a wealthy local family lived in the house even after buying the

estate in 1856, continuing to use Whateley Hall as the residence of the second son, William Newton III, vicar of Rotherham however it was sold in 1881 to the Knight family, local printers following his death in 1879. The house sold to Fred Hayles & Co of Castle Bromwich in 1935 and demolished and what was known as the Whateley Hall Estate of new houses was built on the land. Today Birmingham has grown so much that it encompasses Castle Bromwich, back then it was open fields as shown by various maps All that remains of the Neo Palladian house is the Lodge on the edge of Whateley Green

Ownership

The Newtons

William Newton II and his wife, Mary Whincopp, lived in the house with their children

Goodwin Newton Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton (1835–1907) was the chairman of Imperial Continental Gas Association (now known as Calor Gas), one of the United Kingdom's largest energy businesses. He used "Goodwin" as his main christian name, which became a fami ...

, William Newton III,

Canon Horace Newton Horace Newton (1844–1920) was a priest within the Church of England, philanthropist, and country landowner. Life He lived at the country house of Holmwood, Redditch, Worcestershire, which he had built for him in 1892–3 by Temple Lushington ...

, and Mary Rosa (who later married Henry Cheetham, Bishop of Sierra Leone. After 1856, Barrells Hall became the main house in the family (see above), in addition to the large ) estate in Scotland

Glencripesdale House Glencripesdale House, or Glencripesdale Castle as it was sometimes referred to, was the centre of the Glencripesdale Estate, and was situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Glencripesdale wa ...

/Castle on the

, and

's house

Holmwood, Redditch Holmwood House in Redditch, Worcestershire, is a country by the famed Victorian architect Temple Lushington Moore, who was a vague relative of the Newton family. Rev Canon Newton was brother of Goodwin Newton of Barrells Hall, where Canon New ...

nearby (which was designed for Horace Newton by the architect, and his relative

Temple Lushington Moore Temple Lushington Moore (7 June 1856 – 30 June 1920) was an English architect who practised in London. He is famed for a series of fine Gothic Revival churches built between about 1890 and 1917 and also restored many churches and designed c ...

). The family owned whole streets of commercial property in

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, including part of New Street, as well as

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quarries and mines in

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via the Llanberis Slate Company, including

Bryn Bras Castle Bryn Bras Castle is a Grade II* listed country house located on the old road between Llanrug and Llanberis. Known locally as the Clegir road, in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. It was built in a neo-Romanesque style between 1829 and 1835 on the site of ...

. Cefn Du Quarry Archives https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/ae14404e-c2a4-3d11-a0a8-d66958452415

The Knights

The Knight family purchased the house after 1881 and lived there until it was sold in 1935.

References

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