Nibley House

[1] The Neoclassical Georgian facade dates from 1763 behind which lies the Jacobean manor house built in 1609 by John Smythe the Elder, Steward at the time to Lord Berkeley.

Nibley Hall is known as an example of exceptional Georgian design and for its stucco rococo style ceiling located in its drawing room thought to have been inspired by the work of the famous Swiss-Italian stuccoist Giuseppe Cortese.

[3] The numerous books that he wrote are highly regarded by historians and widely quoted as they accurately portray social conditions of that time.

[11] In 1767, their son Nicholas married Anna Maria, daughter of Sir Charles Leighton, and heiress to her grandmother’s Condover estates.

On Charles's death in 1879, his widow continued to run the estate, selling it in 1901 to Colonel William Frederick Noel, of the Royal Engineers.