Whittington Old Hall c.1900 Whittington Old Hall is a 16th-century mansion house at Whittington,

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, which has been subdivided into separate residential apartments. It is a

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. The house is believed to have been built by the Everard family during the

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. The two-storey entrance front has four gables with dormers and four substantial irregular stone mullioned bays, one offset incorporating a porch. The Astleys and the Dyotts followed as owners but after the Dyott family moved to nearby

Freeford Hall Freeford Manor (previously known as Freeford Hall) is a privately owned 18th-century country house at Freeford, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. It is the home of the Dyott family and is a Grade II listed building. The Dyotts of Lichfield acquire ...

, in 1836, the house was let out to a series of tenants. In 1889, the estate was purchased and occupied by architect and brewer Samuel Lipscomb Seckham, developer of

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and

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, and

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in 1890. Seckham extended and renovated the house, but following the death of his son Colonel Basset Thorne Seckham in 1926, the estate was sold off, and the house again passed through the hands of tenants. In 1959, the neglected property was sold for redevelopment and was subdivided into several separate residential units.

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Whittington Old Hall by Whittington and District History Society
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