Stoneythorpe Hall
Description of this historic site
Stoneythorpe Hall, a building dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with many later development phases.
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Notes about this historic site
1 An initial study of the standing Hall building with the aim of establishing and dating its structural sequence. There are 11 major building phases, from the late 16th century/early 17th century to the 20th century.
2 The second stage of a study of Stoneythorpe Hall includes the historical background of the Hall and a survey of the Hall outbuildings.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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My roommate told my his family lived in Stoneythorpe manor in the 1970’s. They rented it for 40 pounds a month. Why? Because it was haunted. My friend tells me about many weird stories like hearing footsteps climbing the stairs, voices, and even covers ripped off of him. As a child my friend thought covers getting pulled off of him was a normal thing and he made it a game of pulling them back up and them ripping them off again. His father at the time found a secret storage space in the cellar, behind a large rock, that contained a suit of armor, a sword, mace, paintings, letters and wine. Very interesting place. I’ve known these facts for a while but only just now decided to look up Stoneythorpe online and when I showed him the picture he confirmed that was where he lived for a few years in the 70’s. Hopefully u guys can enjoy some history.
Many thanks for really interesting details Johnny. I’ve been researching this house in relation to the Chamberlayne family of Princethorpe. Edward Chamberlayne provided a mortgage for Stoneythorpe Hall when the owners got into difficulties in 1652, and his son John acquired the property in the 1670s. Stoneythorpe remained in the Chamberlayne family for over 300 years (until 1998) so your friend’s family probably rented it off them. It’s a grand Grade II listed house (built around 1600) that fell into disrepair in the 21st century, but was eventually renovated and offered for sale in 2017 for £3.75 million! There’s now a polo club in the grounds.
Hello Anne,
I came across your comment here while researching my family history – my great great grandfather and great grandmother were Chamberlaynes and lived at Stoneythorpe. I am trying to verify how the earlier Chamberlaynes originally came into possession of Princethorpe Manor – apparently, William Knyveton passed Princethorpe Manor to a Martin Chamberlyn in 1580, (British History online), but I have found no corroberating evidence for this anywhere. Do you happen to know if there are any documents to verify this in the Stoneythorpe house/family deeds, if these are archived in the Warwickshire County Archives?
Hi Frances. It’s difficult to check anything whilst the County Record Office is closed, but I’ve had a look on-line. The information you mention comes from the ‘Victoria County History for Warwickshire’ (Volume 6) and footnote 53 give the source as: Feet of Fines, Warwick, East, 22 Elizabeth. I can’t find any mention of William Knyveton in the Warwickshire CRO on-line catalogue so it looks as though we don’t have any relevant local documents. Sorry I can’t help any further.
Many thanks for looking, anyway! 🙂
Hello.
My name is Rebecca Price, nee Guest. My late Father rented Stoneythorpe Hall for many years during the seventies. Initially they rented the whole Hall but found it too big, so consequently sublet half of it. I have wonderful memories of the Hall, my panelled bedroom, searching for secret passages, (there were priest holes under the floor), and playing in the tree house that is still there. The grounds were a sea of Daffodils in the Spring and there was bamboo growing, a rarity at the time. The rooms were enormous and the fireplaces huge, I never met any ghosts though!
My grandad was chauffeur/ gardener to Mrs Symonds.
My grandparents lived in the original gatehouse just inside the big metal gates, late 1940s through to 1960s. I got an early insight to ‘downstairs’ and many happy childhood memories to cherish.
Hi my name is Terry Hanslip and I believe I am related to the Hanslapps who lived at the hall in the 1500s / 1600s. I wondered if there were any plaques or carved initials and the like or documents that still survive regarding the Hanslapps?
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