The History of Weston Hall
 
 

 
Weston Hall's history is relatively unknown, due to a lack of documented evidence. It is believed that the main part of the Hall was built around 1550 as a small dower house - architectural evidence suggests however that it is Jacobean. Weston Hall was extended in 1660 into a three-gable structure with high-pitched roofs. The original builder and early occupants were unknown.

Weston Hall stands in the parish of Salt and Enson. The Hearth Tax Assessment of 1666 shows that Abraham Fowler lived in the parish in a house with 11 hearths. The house is not named, but it is assumed that this refers to Weston Hall, as standard houses during that period normally had only one or two hearths. The Fowlers were a wealthy family of ironmongers from Stafford. They made sales of their properties to the Chetwynds of Ingestre in the late 17th Century and it is likely that Weston Hall was included.

 
Towards the end of the 19th Century, the house was taken over by the Shrewsbury Settled Estates who made further Elizabethan style extensions, built a fourth frontage and raised the main entrance to the first floor. In 1904, the Hall was leased to Staffordshire County Council for use as an asylum and during the Second World War, it was requisitioned by the Army.
Weston Hall remained in the hands of the Council until 1950 when the Godwin family bought the property and converted it into flats.

By the early 1990s, the Hall was in a poor structural state. Stafford business man Paul Reynolds bought the property in 1992 and converted it into a restaurant with function suites and en-suite rooms. Work was completed in 2001 after nine years of restoration.




Weston Hall, Weston Bank, Weston, Stafford, ST18 0BA
T: 01889 271700    F: 01889 271400   E: info@westonhall.co.uk
www.westonhall.co.uk