Through the Gate

A place for lunch. A Grade II Listed Building

(2605 views on Panoramio)

(Grade II* Listed Building)

A large Baptist chapel of Christ Church, built in 1877 by G. F. Muntz.

"Packwood House is well known for it's topiary garden which is breathtaking in the Spring when the daffodils are up and the house and gardens look their best. Tradition has it that Charles II was given refreshment at Packwood after the defeat of his armies at Worcester in 1651. The property was donated to the National Trust in 1941 by Mr Graham Baron Ash in memory of his parents. The Ash family had spent many years restoring the property.

We had difficulty locating the footpath, and after successfully negotiating the aircraft, we now had to take on the dogs!

On Panoramio this picture attracted 1902 views but someone pointed out that it was indeed just one dwelling. Intrigued to see if they were at one time separate cottages I looked on the 1888 OS Map and noticed that this dwelling could have been the Vicarage.

Hoar Cross Hall is a Grade II listed building. In 1808 Hugo Meynell died and left the Old Hall to son, Hugo Francis, who commissioned the construction of a new hall to celebrate his marriage to Lady Emily Charlotte, daughter of Lord Halifax. In 1871 Hugo Francis died, but the hall construction went ahead the current Hoar Cross Hall was designed by Henry Clutton, it has 48 chimneys and 2 ‘turret’ water towers, with a ‘long gallery’ of 114 feet in length and a drawing room, which is paneled and wallpapered by William Morris. It can be described as Elizabethan, with Jacobean overtones, and it cost just under £1,000 to build.