Haseley Manor
Haseley Manor, a country house which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 400m east of the church at Haseley.
1 ‘A large and heavily picturesque mansion was built in 1875 by William Young. Its style is Tudor, from Gothic to Elizabethan. The dominant feature is a tower with higher stair turret and formerly a little wooden saddleback top feature. In front of it is a deep gothic porte-cochere with an upper-storey with oriel. The rooms inside are not special, except for some fireplaces and especially the tiles in all of them, which are of the greatest variety of designs and patterns.’
2 Some very recent additions on the south side do not tone with the original building. The house is now a training centre for British Leyland staff.
3 Very brief outline of the history from documentary sources.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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The photo you show is of Haseley House (rectory), the building in the foreground is the old Tythe barn.l lived there as a child and remember the area well and talking to people who could remember the lake on what is now the gathering grounds. It is very sad that the old manor was pulled down,the drawing room looked out over the walled garden with a circular pond in the middle; we always considered the new manor a monstrosity .My step father col. Hancock bought the house from the Wright family who had lived there for many years and presented Birmingham art gallery with a wonderful collection of water colours. My mother’s cook was Mrs Jeffs who lived at Catchems corner at the bottom of Hatton Hill, which l believe is on the edge of the Haseley estate. Gumley the Lants retired keeper taught me to shoot. It must have been a heavenly place in the 18th century
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