| Abberton Hall | |
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 Entrance to Abberton Hall | |
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| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Location | Abberton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°10′43″N2°00′34″W / 52.17861°N 2.00944°W Coordinates: 52°10′43″N2°00′34″W / 52.17861°N 2.00944°W |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 2 |
Abberton Hall is a small country house in the village of Abberton, Worcestershire, England, near Pershore. [1]
It is an irregular two-story house, faced with modern brick, with at its core the timber-framed house of the Sheldon family, with a brick facade and a massive stone chimneybreast (dated 1619). Abberton Hall was the seat of William Laslett, Member of Parliament (MP) for Worcester. [1] This was also the home of Benjamin Gibbon (born 1914), who created murals in the garden loggia, dated to 1937.
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