Ludstone Hall

Heritage listing

Details Moated C17 manor house with formal topiary gardens in C17 style and a small park, both created c 1900. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT In the C17 and later Ludstone was the seat of the Whitmores, and c 1607 the Hall was completely rebuilt for Sir John Whitmore (d 1649) within what is presumably a medieval moat. In 1867, after a long period when it was let to farmers, Ludstone was sold by the Whitmores. In 1872-3 it was purchased by Joseph Round Cartwright (d 1910), a recently widowed Sedgley firebrick manufacturer, under who the house was restored, service ranges constructed, and new gardens and a small park laid out. The Hall remained in private hands in the late 1990s. DESCRIPTION LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Ludstone Hall and its ancillary buildings dominate the small hamlet of Ludstone, which lies in a subsidiary north/south valley north of the Danford Brook. Ludstone is in the parish of Claverley, a substantial village c 2km to the south-west, with which it is linked by an unclassified road. Bridgnorth lies 9km to the west. The registered area (c 27ha) is partly bounded by local roads, the boundary otherwise following field edges. ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES Since the 1870s the main approach to the Hall has been a short, broad and straight gravel drive bordered with clipped yews on the south side, past a brick, Jacobean-style lodge (listed, as are gate piers, grade II) of the 1870s designed by Robert Griffiths, which leads to a gravel court across the south front of the Hall. Of the same date are the gates and flanking walls (also listed grade II). Until the 1870s the main approach was from the east, through the service area and stables court and across the moat via a stone bridge with low brick lodges with pyramidal roofs (one ?C17, the other C20) on th

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.