Site of Hams Hall
Description of this historic site
The site of Hams Hall, a manor house which was built during the Imperial period. It was situated 1km south of Lea Marston but was demolished to make way for a power station.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Designed by James Wyatt for Charles Boyer Adderley, replacing an earlier manor house. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1890, but in 1920 it was demolished, and the facade re-erected in a house called Bledisloe Lodge (Gloucestershire). The site is now occupied by a power station.
2 A watching brief in 1996 (WA 8338) found a brick built water storage structure south of the site of the Hall.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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My Great Grandfather, John Evan Febery, was the Butler to Lord Norton Adderley at Hams Hall in the 1900s, up to the point where in 1911 Hams Hall was sold by the family.
This is where Lord Norton (Charles Adderley), the colonial reformer, planned the development of New Zealand and its constitution. It was said to have started one evening in 12850 when Lord Norton and Edward Wakefield paced up and down the terrace concocting the New Zealand constitution.
Source: “Warwickshire” by Arthur Mee.
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