The house comprised three main levels and was built in the classical Palladian style with pilasters and pediment.
The Newtons were a wealthy family who owned whole streets of commercial property in Birmingham, including part of New Street,[3] as well as welsh slate quarries and mines in Llanberis via the Llanberis Slate Company.
However, the second son of the family, William Newton III, vicar of Rotherham, remained at Whateley Hall.
Other properties owned by the family included their 26,000-acre (11,000 ha) estate in Scotland, Glencripesdale House, and the house of Canon Horace Newton in Holmwood, Redditch, designed for him by the architect Temple Lushington Moore.
Following the death of William Newton III in 1879, Whateley Hall was sold in 1881 to the Knight family, local printers.