Whitmore Hall

Whitmore Hall

Whitmore Hall
Whitmore
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 5HW

Tel: 01782 680 478
Fax: 020 7259 5590
E-Mail: info@hha.org.uk

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About Whitmore Hall

Whitmore Hall is a fine Carolean manor house set in landscaped gardens and surrounded by a beautiful park.
The manor of Whitmore has always passed by descent, never by sale, and the present owners, the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family, are direct descendants of the original Norman owners.
In 1546 the heiress of the manor of Whitmore, Alice de Boghay, married Edward Mainwaring of Peover in Cheshire. It was their great-grandson, another Edward, who rebuilt the original timber-framed building.
The new red-brick house was designed in the artisan Mannerist style of the age. Work on the house was completed in 1676, although parts of the building date back to a much earlier period. In 1891 the heiress Ellen Jane Mainwaring married Wentworth Cavenagh.
Between 1863 and 1928 Whitmore Hall was let to the Hollins and Twyford families who remodelled the main interiors. At this time much of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family's furniture was dispersed.
The main front faces south and dates mostly from the 1670s. The house is nine bays wide under a hipped roof, with large symmetrically placed chimneystacks. An ornate porch was added in the 19th century.
The other facades have a number of 19th century additions and are asymmetrical. None of the interiors date from the 1670s as the house w