Abberton Hall

Abberton Hall
Entrance to Abberton Hall
General information
Type	House
Location	Abberton
Country	England
Coordinates	52°10′43″N2°00′34″W / 52.17861°N 2.00944°W / 52.17861; -2.00944
Technical details
Floor count	2

Abberton Hall is a small country house in the village of Abberton, Worcestershire, England, near Pershore. ^[1]

History

See also: History of Worcestershire § Georgian society, politics and religion

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.

References

1. Burke 1858, p. 671.

Biography

• J.B. Burke, A Visitation of Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1852–55, ii, p. 175
• Country Life, lxxxi, p. 24
• R. Lockett, A survey of historic parks and gardens in Worcestershire, 1997, p. 3
• Sir N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Worcestershire, 1968, p. 68
• P. Reid, Burke's & Savill's Guide to Country Houses: vol. 2, Herefordshore, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1980 p. 191 (contains illustration)

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Burke, Bernard (1858). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (Public domain ed.). Harrison.

External links

• Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1259952)". National Heritage List for England .