Penns Hall
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Penns Hall | |
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General information | |
Type | Hotel (formerly private residence) |
Location | Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England |
Coordinates | 52°32′11.77″N 1°48′27.59″W / 52.5366028°N 1.8076639°W |
Renovated | 1950 |
Owner | Ramada International |
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Penns Hall is a building on Penns Lane, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, operated as a hotel and country club by Ramada International. The complex is now closed to the public due to the housing of asylum seekers. It is a Grade B locally listed building,[1] and is licensed as a venue for civil marriages and civil partnerships.[2]
Plants Brook, a tributary of the River Tame, flows through its grounds. A long pool formed by the damming of Plants Brook named Penns Lake is also part of the hotel grounds. This is today used as a carp fishing lake operated by Fosters Fisheries.
History
In 1618, John Penn was operating two
The Websters, a
He and his son Joseph Webster developed a wire drawing business and additional premises were taken on at Plants Mill and Hints Forge. Joseph Webster further expanded operations and in 1812 built cottages for the workers adjacent to the mills. This Joseph was warden of Sutton Coldfield in 1810.
By 1815, when Joseph Webster was born, Penns Hall had become a substantial mansion; on census day in 1851 he was employing 105 men and 43 boys at the mills. He was also farming 30 acres (120,000 m2). His brother
In 1855, the business of Websters was merged with that of Horsfall at
During the 1980s, the hotel became famous as the location for exterior filming of the British television soap opera
References
- ^ "Schedule of Locally Listed Buildings". Birmingham City Council. December 2007. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ "Premises Approved for Civil Marriages and Civil Partnerships in Birmingham". Birmingham City Council. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- Horsfall, John (1971). The Iron Masters of Penns 1720 - 1970. Kineton: Roundwood Press. ISBN 978-0900093296.
- "Greswold of Malvern Hall". Warwickshire County Record Office. 1776. CR 299.