Woodcote Hall

Woodcote Hall is a house built in 1875, in use as a nursing home, situated on the edge of Newport, Shropshire, England, on the Staffordshire border.

There are remains of the original house at the north-west and south-west sides and there are vestiges of 17th-century fabric at the rear (south), one room contains fireplaces with inscription "T. C. 1767" and stopped and chamfered ceiling beams.

Also a small stone-rubble rear wing with stopped and chamfered ceiling beam and tiebeam roof truss with angle struts.

The estate was sold out of the Cotes family to Captain James Foster (1853–1927), who had previously leased the house and lived there many years.

The greater part of its student intake were from southern Ireland until education changes in their country in the 1960s reduced the rolls (from a peak of 80 boys a year) and caused the seminary to be closed in 1972.

[9] In 1957 the Sacred Heart Fathers built a new chapel on the former tennis courts to sit 150 boys, holding seven separate oratories and a spacious sacristy.

In the mid-19th century there were also lavish formal pleasure gardens, and a photograph of c.1860 shows intricate geometric cutwork beds or parterre set in gravel walks (S.R.O.