EAW024596 ENGLAND (1949). Coton Hall, Alveley, 1949

Coton Hall, Alveley, Shropshire WV15 6ES

Grade 2 listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 254270

Privzte property - no public access but footpaths nearby. 21stC redeveloped. Listed as "flats" in 2011.



A large early C19 house built for Harry Lancelot Lee with Early Victorian additions on left

Coton Hall is the ancestral home of the Lee family, and there has been a house on this site since the Middle Ages.

General Robert E Lee (American Civil War) is of this family. Some years later he received a Presidential Pardon from President Jimmy Carter.

Also from this family Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee, were the only brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence.

The property was sold from the Lee family in 1821.



The ruinous chapel in the grounds (possibly 13th C) was made more picturesque by the insertion of a gothick east window around 1765. In 1878 the chapel roof collapsed and all the Lee monuments were moved to Alveley church.



In the mid-18th century, work had already been done to the surrounds of Coton Hall.



The house's cellar is two storeys deep and in the lower of the two levels includes the entrance to a tunnel. According to the estate agent FPD Savills, the tunnel runs all the way to Alveley village two miles away, although it's been concreted off beyond the chapel for safety reasons.