| Condover Hall | |
|---|---|
.jpg) North elevation of Condover Hall | |
  Location within Shropshire | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Elizabethan |
| Town or city | Condover, Shropshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°38′47″N 02°44′52″W / 52.64639°N 2.74778°W |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Condover Hall |
| Designated | 3 November 1955 |
| Reference no. | 1055706[1] |
| Official name | Condover Hall |
| Designated | 3 November 1955 |
| Reference no. | 1001118[2] |
| Grade | II |
Condover Hall is a Grade I listed three-storey Elizabethan sandstone building, described as the grandest manor house in Shropshire, standing in a conservation area on the outskirts of Condover village, Shropshire, England, four miles south of the county town of Shrewsbury.
A Royal manor in Anglo Saxon times, until the 16th century Condover Manor was in and out of Crown Tenure. In 1586 it was purchased by Thomas Owen, a Member of Parliament for, and Recorder of, Shrewsbury, from the family of the previous owner, Henry Vynar, a London merchant who had died in 1585. Owen had had a lease of the manor from 1578, and been in lawsuit with the family.[3]
For over sixty years from 1946 the hall was run as a residential school, initially for blind children when owned by the RNIB and latterly under private ownership as a school for autistic children, covering boy boarders and coeducational day pupils. The school and college both closed during 2009. The house has subsequently been re-opened as an activity centre.
- ^ Historic England. "Condover Hall (Grade I) (1055706)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ Historic England. "Condover Hall (Grade II) (1001118)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ Pugh, R.B., ed. (1968). Victoria County History of Shropshire, Volume VIII. Oxford University Press. p. 39.