A Hostel A Week – Wilderhope

A ceiling, a staircase and a manor

John Martin has a new tranche of historical profiles available including this one for Wilderhope Manor.

Wilderhope Manor was originally the Elizabethan home, built in 1588 with local Aymestry limestone, of Francis Smallman. Six generations of the Smallmans occupied it.

It was later a farmhouse, and by the early twentieth century was unoccupied, in poor repair and being put to lowly agricultural use.

John Cadbury (and perhaps Barclay Baron) discovered it; it was bought, renovated and presented to the National Trust in 1936 by the WA Cadbury Trust >>> download a profile of Wilderhope Manor to read more