Hawkstone Hall

There was no manor house at Hawkstone until around the eighteenth century. The original senior house in the manor was the Red Castle. It was a ruin when Leland visited in around 1540. That building is still a ruin and it is inside the Follies Park. The Audley family, later allied to the Stanley family held it in the medieval period: Dugdale informs us that "this castle was erected in the reign of Henry III; but there is an ancient manuscript in the Audley family, which proves that its original existence was of much earlier date. It is there said that 'Maud, or Matilde, wife of William the Conqueror, gave to John de Audley and to his heirs, the lands about Red Castle, in the county of Salop,…

The house was built between 1701 and 1725 by Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1655–1727), second of the Hill baronets, of Hawkstone. It borrows extensively in style from the house at Soulton. Brothers Rowland (1st Viscount Hill) and Robert Hill, who fought at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo were both born at the Hall. The manor was seat of a branch the Shropshire Hill family for more than 300 years. A line of the Shropshire Hill family held Hawkstone until the collapse of the Hawkstone line of the Hills in the time of Rowland Clegg-Hill, the 3rd Viscount Hill on his death in 1895, forced the sale of the hall's contents and the split up of the estate by 1906.

Hawkstone was put on the market in 2014. It was bought by The Distinctly Hospitable Group Ltd. in August 2017. The new owners received change of use planning permission, for a hotel wedding/events venue. These changes took place in 2017-2018. Members of the Hill family expressed their disappointment at the change to commercial use.