Built in c.1560, Grimshaw Hall () is a half-timbered
Tudor manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
located in the village of
Knowle, approximately 15 miles from the city of
Birmingham
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,
England
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. The Hall takes its name from the Grimshaw family who occupied it from 1620 to around 1765.
Grimshaw Hall is
Grade I listed
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and is considered to be a fine example of
Elizabethan
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domestic architecture. It has a main hall block between two cross-wings which project forwards about six feet; in the centre is a fine two-storeyed porch, which completes the E plan often favoured at that time.
The hall is visible during winter months through the bare hedgerows of Hampton Road running between Knowle and
Hampton-in-Arden
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. At most other times of the year the hall retains its seclusion.
Trivia
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Queen Mary visited Grimshaw Hall in 1927.
References
In depth study of the Grimshaw family and the Hall
External links
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Country houses in the West Midlands (county)
Grade I listed houses
Grade I listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)
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