Pillaton Hall

[1] There must have been a substantial building already on the site of the later Hall, presumably a fortified manor house, as the remains of the medieval moat are still very evident even from a satellite photograph.

By this time the Littletons were set on a course for domination of the Penkridge area and it was around the mid-16th century that they built a substantial hall at Pillaton.

However, the fourth and last of the Littleton baronets, who succeeded in 1742, moved the family seat north to Teddesley Hall, allegedly building it with hoards of cash discovered hidden at Pillaton.

The medieval moat, made up of round and rectangular elements is easily observed, both on the ground and on aerial photographs.

The remaining old buildings are, however, all of the Tudor period,[1] and were probably begun by the first Sir Edward Littleton, who died in 1558, although some of the work probably dates from later in the century.

East of the remains of the Hall there is a rectangular brick garden wall, and to the north an 18th-century barn.

Remains of Pillaton Old Hall, near Penkridge , Staffordshire . The original moated manor house became ruinous, but the Gatehouse and Chapel were restored in the 1880s.
Pillaton Old Hall from the north-west: the Georgian barn is prominent to the left, with the modern building on the right, and the gatehouse range behind