Packington Old Hall

{{Short description|Country house in Great Packington, Warwickshire, England}}

Packington Old Hall is a 17th-century manor house situated at Great Packington, near Meriden, Warwickshire. It is a Grade II listed building. It stands in gardens enclosed by late 17th century brick walls.

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History

The original Packington Manor House (now known as Packington Old Hall) was rebuilt in red brick in 1679 for Sir Clement Fisher, 2nd Baronet,{{NHLE |desc=PACKINGTON OLD HALL WITH WALLS ADJOINING ON EAST AND WEST SIDES, COURTYARD WALL ADJOINING AT REAR, AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, Great Packington |num=1034811 |access-date=6 June 2024 }} and his wife Jane Lane. In 1690, it was described as ‘a sweet seat, near the road, with a park on the other side, with a fair lodge and an avenue of fir-trees to the hall’.{{cite book |last=Cliffe |first=J. T. (John Trevor) |url=http://archive.org/details/worldofcountryho0000clif |title=The world of the country house in seventeenth-century England |date=1999 |publisher=New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-300-07643-1}}

There is an oblong shaped brick dovecote about 50m away from the Old Hall which was used for housing doves and pigeons. It has over 100 nesting places on three of the walls.{{cite web |title=Dovecote at Packington Old Hall |url=https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_her/dovecote-at-packington-old-hall |access-date=6 June 2024 |website=Our Warwickshire }}

In 1693 Sir Clement Fisher's nephew, also Sir Clement Fisher, 3rd Baronet, built another larger mansion on the estate. The new house became known as Packington Hall and from 1729 the house has been the seat of the Earls of Aylesford.

References

External links

[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3980171 Photos of Packington Old Hall and surrounding area on geograph]

Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Warwickshire

Category:Country houses in Warwickshire

Category:Grade II* listed houses