Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pitchford Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor country house in the village of Pitchford, Shropshire, 6 miles south east of Shrewsbury. It was built c.1560 on the site of a medieval building and has been modified several times since, particularly in the 1870s and 1880s when it was substantially restored, remodelled and extended.
Boasting architectural oddities, wandering cigar-smoking ghosts and the weight of centuries, there’s plenty to discover on the Pitchford Estate. Exceptionally fine half-timbered house, owned by the Colthurst family for 500 years, sold in 1992.
At the heart of the Estate is Pitchford Hall which once played host to Queen Victoria, who visited Pitchford as a 13-year-old princess and climbed up into the famous Pitchford tree house. The Hall was also considered as a safe house for the British Royal Family during the Second World War.
Information and resources on the rich history of Pitchford Hall, from its past as a county seat to its historic treehouse and restoration.
Viewed by Country Life magazine as one of the most beautiful historic houses in the country, the West Wing of Pitchford Hall has been sensitively restored and turned into a seven double bedroomed holiday let, sleeping 14. We've named the holiday let the Generals' Quarters.
The Hall, and the adjacent parish church, lie almost 1km north-west of the modern village of Pitchford. The Hall stands on the north side of the Row Brook valley, at the point where the Brook is joined by a smaller stream from the west which has been dammed to form the two large pools west of the Hall.
Pitchford Hall is the Nason's family home. The princess sold it back to us in 2016 and we reunited the house with the estate. It was an emotional moment, Pitchford coming back into the hands of the family who had owned it since 1473, and my wife returning to the house she had grown up in.