Pype Hayes Hall
Pype Hayes Hall is a country house in the Pype'Hayes area of Erdington , a suburb of Birmingham . The property of the country house forms the Pype Hayes Park . The area used to belong to the English county of Warwickshire , but was then incorporated together with the rest of the city of Birmingham in 1974 into the new West Midlands administrative district. English Heritage has listed the house as a second-degree historic building.
history
The history of the Pype manor is obscure, but it appears that the manor belonged to the widowed estate of Dorothy Arden , daughter and co-heiress of Robert Arden of Berwood (now Castle Vale ). Dorothy had been married to Hervey Bagot , second son of Sir Hervey Bagot, 1st Baronet , since about 1625 .
Bagot incorporated many hectares of land into the property and built a new country house with a park around 1630. He lived in the house with his wife for 15 years and then fell as a royalist colonel in the Battle of Naseby in the English Civil War in 1645 . Descendants from various branches of the Bagot family lived in the country house for over 250 years. Later stables, which were built in 1762, were added and the house was significantly expanded and modernized in the mid-19th century.
The poet Robert Southey (1774-1843) worked in Pype Hayes Hall on his 1833 biography of William Cowper , a friend of the Bagot family.
Between 1881 and 1888, the Bagots sold approximately 280 acres of the property to the Birmingham Tame and Rea Drainage Board to create and expand the Minworth Sewage Works (municipal sewage treatment plant). The house was leased and then sold to the City of Birmingham by the Bagots in 1920. The city administration had the park of the country house converted into a public recreation park (Pype Hayes Park) and the house was used for various social purposes. From around 1949 until the 1970s, Pype Hayes Hall was a children's home.
In 2015, real estate agent Gerry Poutney bought the country house and its outbuildings; He announced that he would convert it into a hotel with 60 beds, a wellness area and a swimming pool.
Murders
On May 27, 1974, the child nurse Barbara Forrest was murdered in Pype Hayes Hall . Michael Thornton was charged with murder, which was almost identical to a murder 157 years earlier: Mary Ashford was murdered on May 27, 1817 ; the murderer at the time was Abraham Thornton .
Individual evidence
- ^ Pype Hayes House . Images of England. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
- ^ Graeme Brown: Hotel plan for old Pype Hayes Hall dating back to Civil War . In: Birmingham Post . June 28, 2015. Accessed January 23, 2017.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31'36 " N , 1 ° 48'25" W.