Blithfield Hall

The Hall, with its embattled towers and walls, has been the home of the Bagot family since the late 14th century.

The present house is mainly Elizabethan, with a neo-Gothic façade added in the 1820s to a design probably by John Buckler.

[1] In 1945 the Hall, then in a neglected and dilapidated state, was sold by Gerald Bagot, 5th Baron Bagot, together with its 650-acre (260 ha) estate to South Staffordshire Waterworks Company, whose intention was to build a reservoir (completed in 1953).

In September 1959 Lord Bagot sold Blithfield Hall at an open auction held in the Shrewsbury Arms, Rugeley.

The main part which incorporates the Great Hall is owned by the Bagot Jewitt Trust.

Blithfield Hall by John Buckler , John Chessell Buckler
Blithfield Hall: the earliest known record of the house is this engraving of the north and west fronts, from Dr. Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire (1686). The cupola over the hall can be seen to the left of the large gable in the centre.
Arms of the Barons Bagot , featuring the Bagot goat