The Shrubbery is a former military installation in

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it ha ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

. It is a Grade II

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

History

The building is an early 19th-century mansion which was owned by the Lea family in the first half of that century. It then passed into the hands of a Major Winnington in the second half of the century. It was converted around the end of the century for use as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. This unit evolved to become the 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at the mansion in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. The battalion was also based at the mansion at the start of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

. The battalion was reduced to a single company, B Company (Worcestershire), The Mercian Volunteers, in 1967. The company evolved to become A Company, 5th Battalion,

The Light Infantry The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. The regiment was one of four 'large' regiments formed after the 1966 Defence White Paper through the amalgamation of units of the Light Infantry Brig ...

(Volunteers) in 1992 and A (

Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (abbreviated as ''WFR'') was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The regiment served as the county regiment for Derbyshire, Nottingha ...

) Company, 5th Battalion, The (Shropshire and Herefordshire) Light Infantry (Volunteers) in 1993. The Ministry of Defence decided to move the unit to a more modern adjacent building in October 1994. The mansion was subsequently decommissioned and, in February 1998, it was converted into a nursing home.

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