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2 days ago · Entry is free for National Trust members and under 5s. Please note, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult. You don't need to pre-book your visit to Speke Hall. The garden, estate, restaurant and play areas are open every day. The Speke Hall mansion itself is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12.30pm to 5.00pm, with last entry at 4.30pm.
- History of Speke Hall
While Speke Hall was occupied in the early 1830s by Richard...
- Things to Do in Speke Hall's House
Planning your visit. When's best to visit the house?: We'd...
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- Speke Hall Estate Walk
Speke Hall is adjacent to Liverpool Airport and 1 mile off...
- History of Speke Hall
28 June 1952. Reference no. 1359837. Location of Speke Hall in Merseyside. Speke Hall by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1870). Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, Liverpool, England. It is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind. It is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade I listed building.
- A False Start at Speke
- A State of Decay
- The Gothic Revival of Speke Hall
- The Leyland Years
- Artists in Residence
- Adelaide Returns Home
- Looking to The Future
Richard Watt III came of age in 1807 and married Hannah Burn of Hull a year later. The couple used his inheritance to repair and refurnish Speke Hall. Richard later recalled that ‘the interior of the house was very much destroyed by the people (farmers and others) that the Beauclerk family allowed to live there.' In 1812, Richard abruptly sold most...
While Speke Hall was occupied in the early 1830s by Richard Watt IV, eldest son of the racehorse owner, it became empty once again when he died in 1835. He left behind his wife Jane and their two infants, Richard Watt V and Sarah, who settled elsewhere in Liverpool. Shortly after, Speke Hall was let to a timber merchant called Joseph Brereton. Unti...
A period of rapid transformation began at Speke Hall when Richard Watt V came of age in 1856. He sold his grandfather's Yorkshire estate and married Adelaide Hignett of Chester. Together, they carried out major restorations, employing a firm on Bold Street in Liverpool to help them fit their Tudor mansion with fashionable Gothic Revival interiors. ...
While Adelaide went to Scotland to await her coming-of-age under the guardianship of her great uncle, Speke Hall welcomed a new tenant: Frederick Leyland, manager of the Bibby shipping line and a multimillionaire by today's standards. Leyland made many improvements and changes during his first winter at the house, creating the Billiard Room, a scul...
Deeply engaged in the world of art, Frederick Leyland was a patron of many artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler. As a founding member of William Morris's decorating firm, Rossetti likely advised Leyland to use the three Morris wallpapers still intact at Speke Hall. In 1868, Rossetti even visited his patron and describ...
After a disciplined upbringing at Spott House, the Scottish mansion of her great uncle James Sprot, Adelaide returned to Speke Hall to take over the reins. With a sharp eye for detail, she quickly became an expert in running the estate, being equally adept as land agent, building surveyor and accountant. Adelaide had high expectations for any prosp...
In 1885, Adelaide began an ambitious project at Home Farm to build an impressive new building containing all the latest farming technology. While Adelaide was known as a conscientious employer, she welcomed the advent of new machinery to replace men and horses. Her focus on the future of Speke Hall was also evident at the house, where she installed...
Planning your visit. When's best to visit the house?: We'd advise you to visit us in the afternoon, so that you're here for when the house is open from March to December, between 12.30-5pm. Any queues are likely to be shorter later in the afternoon, so we'd recommend heading to the main entrance of the house from 2pm.
Speke Hall, originally built in 1530, has an atmospheric interior that spans many periods. The Great Hall and priest hole date from Tudor times, while the Oak Parlour and smaller rooms, some with William Morris wallpapers, illustrates the Victorian desire for privacy and comfort. There is also fine Jacobean plasterwork and intricately carved furniture. A fully equipped Victorian kitchen and ...
- The Walk, Liverpool, L24 1XD, Merseyside
- 0151 427 7231
The North Front of Speke Hall, Liverpool. Pretty, witty Nell When Thomas Norris’s youngest son Richard died childless in 1730, the estate passed to Thomas’s granddaughter Mary who married Lord Sidney Beauclerk, grandson of Charles II and his long-term mistress, restoration actress Nell Gwynn (called ‘pretty, witty Nell’ by diarist Samuel Pepys).
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