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Wootton Lodge was built about 1611 for Sir Richard Fleetwood Bt (High Sheriff in 1614), possibly by the architect Robert Smythson. During the English Civil War the house was held for the Crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. It was restored in about 1700 when a flight of balustrade entrance steps was added. [1]
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The walls enclose the courtyard to the east of the house on the north, south and east sides. The north and south walls are about 6 feet (1.8 m) high and have moulded coping . In the centre of the east wall are gate piers with a square section and ball finials , and they are flanked by dwarf coped walls ramped down from the piers.
Wootton Hall, the house where Rousseau stayed, was demolished in the 1930s. [10] Wootton Lodge, the privately owned 17th century house, is a grade I listed building in the parish owned by the Bamford family. During the English Civil War the house was held for the Crown and was badly damaged during a Parliamentary siege. It was restored in about ...
He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1614 and built the Grade I listed Wootton Lodge at Ellastone [1] The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1780. [2] Sir Richard Fleetwood, 1st Baronet (died 1649) Sir Thomas Fleetwood, 2nd Baronet (1609–1670) Sir Richard Fleetwood, 3rd Baronet (1628–1700) [3]
Ellastone is situated close to the River Dove, on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The village can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon times in documentation and it features in the Domesday Book, where it is listed as Edelachestone and Elachestone. [2]
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Woolton Hall is a former country house located in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, England.Built in 1704 and extensively renovated in 1772 by the influential architect Robert Adam, the building is praised as the finest example of Adam's work in the North of England.