Poole Hall
Poole Hall is a Regency mansion at Poole, near Nantwich in Cheshire, England. It dates from 1812–17 and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be "exceptionally fine". The hall is a private residence and is not open to the public.
The manor of White-Poole was held by the Elcock or Elcocke family from around 1600. An earlier house on the site of the present hall was in existence in 1622. The manor passed into the Massey family early in the 19th century, on the marriage of the heiress Elizabeth Elcocke to the Reverend William Massey, rector of Ditchingham in Norfolk. The present hall was built in 1812–17 for their second son, also William Massey, possibly to the design of Lewis Wyatt.
The Massey family retained ownership of the hall until around 1900. Towards the end of the 19th century it was rented out; tenants included the cricketer A. N. Hornby, as well as his father, William Henry Hornby, MP for Blackburn.Sir William Holland, MP, was living in the hall in 1904.
After several changes of ownership, the hall was purchased in 1988 by Tony Hill, a property developer, who undertook restoration work on the house and also enlarged the estate from 27 acres (110,000 m2) to 168 acres (0.68 km2). An avid collector, Hill used the house and its outbuildings to display his extensive collection of antiques, collectibles and cars. Antiques expert Paul Hayes described the collection as including "dozens of teas-maids, lamp stands, mannequins, toy robots, an old pinball machine and ... a stag's head". The car collection included Keith Richards' Bentley, nicknamed "Blue Lena". Hill sold the estate in 2007.
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