Penns Hall
| Penns Hall | |
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The hall in 2013
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| General information | |
| Type | Hotel (formerly private residence) |
| Location | Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England |
| Coordinates | 52°32′11.77″N 1°48′27.59″W / 52.5366028°N 1.8076639°WCoordinates: 52°32′11.77″N 1°48′27.59″W / 52.5366028°N 1.8076639°W |
| Renovated | 1950 |
| Owner | Ramada International |
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Penns Hall is a building on Penns Lane, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, operated as a hotel and country club by Ramada International. It is a Grade B locally listed building, and is licensed as a venue for civil marriages and civil partnerships.
Plants Brook, a tributary of the River Tame, flows through its grounds.
In 1618, John Penn was operating two water mills for corn milling and for blade sharpening in Sutton Coldfield.
The Websters, a Presbyterian family, operated a blade mill at Perry Barr, Birmingham and in about 1750, Joseph Webster acquired the additional lease of the Penns Mills which property in 1776 comprised a house and two dwellings adjoining a wire mill and a fulling mill, called Penns Mills.
He and his son Joseph Webster developed a wire drawing business and additional premises were taken on at Plants Mill and Hints Forge. Joseph Webster further expanded operations and in 1812 built cottages for the workers adjacent to the mills. This Joseph was Warden of Sutton Coldfield in 1810.
By 1815, when Joseph Webster was born, Penns Hall had become a substantial mansion; on census day in 1851 he was employing 105 men and 43 boys at the mills. He was also farming 30 acres (120,000 m2). His brother Baron Dickinson Webster, born 1818, was a Justice of the Peace, a freemason, a member of the Aston Union and of the Turnpike Trust and was Warden of the town in 1844 and in 1855–1858. A man of some prominence, he was much involved in the negotiations with railway companies regarding their plans for routes to and through Sutton Coldfield. His business interests included the manufacture of wire, and in 1998 a blue plaque was erected at the hall by the Sutton Coldfield Civic Society, honouring his involvement in the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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