Abberton Hall

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

Entrance to Abberton Hall

History

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 a publication now 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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