Widmerpool Hall
| Widmerpool Hall | |
|
Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Widmerpool Hall | |
| Type: | Country house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK62902840 |
| Location: | 52°50’58"N, 1°4’3"W |
| Village: | Widmerpool |
| History | |
| Built 1872 | |
| For: | Major George Coke Robertson by Henry Clutton |
| Country house | |
| Gothic Revival | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to flats |
Widmerpool Hall is a country house in Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire. Standing on the north side of the village, the house was built in 1872 for Major George Coke Robertson to the designs of Henry Clutton, in a neo-Gothic style. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The house was constructed of Bath and Clipsham stone. It has an Italianate, gargoyle adorned clock-tower without a clock; the space for the clock was left blank out of respect for Robertson's recently deceased wife.
The hall remained a private residence until the breakup of the estate in the 1950s. For several decades at the end of the twentieth century, it was the headquarters of The Automobile Association Patrol Service Training School, popularly known as 'The AA Academy'. British Pathé recorded some of the activities there in 'The AA Story', in 1967.[2]
Between 2008 and 2010 the house underwent extensive renovation for residential purposes; and this has provided 9 apartments, 11 mews style houses and 4 detached houses.
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1259990: Widmerpool Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1