Little Aston Hall

Little Aston Hall is a Georgian country house in Little Aston, Staffordshire, England. The original hall building is Grade II listed. It was constructed around 1730 by Richard Scott of nearby Great Barr Hall, in a Georgian style with a park and lake. The house was restyled by architect James Wyatt for William Tennant in the early 19th century. It was enlarged and improved at a reputed cost of £35,000 in 1857 by Hon Edward Swynfen Parker Jervis, younger son of Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent and great nephew of Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, the naval hero of the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent. In the early 20th century the hall had a number of owners. The Birmingham solicitor Joseph Bennett Clarke purchased Little Aston Hall with 1500 surrounding acres in 1907, though he kept only 100 acres of the estate for gardens, a deer park, and Barns Farm. The rest was sold, and 400 acres were transformed into Little Aston Golf Course. 16 houses were built on the former estate. Clarke died in 1924 and the hall was sold to Harry Scribbans, a wealthy cake maker, with only 118 acres (0.48 km2). The remaining land was sold at auction piecemeal. Unoccupied from 1950, the house became the Midlands regional headquarters of Esso in 1954, later the Head Office of Birfield Ltd. In 1966 it was acquired by GKN. In 1984 the site was redeveloped. The origin

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