EAW024601 ENGLAND (1949). Coton Hall and the surrounding countryside, Alveley, 1949

Location of former pheasantry

This area was formerly part of the wood (shown in 1888 OS map) - the rough ground may indicate fairly recent harvesting.

Formerly Fish Pond with boat house in bottom right corner.

Gagefield Coppice. The trees now also grow between this wood and the road to the right.

The Rough

Little Coton House is behind these trees

The Rookery

The Coppice

Home Farm

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.

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.

The Coach House