Edgbaston Hall

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Edgbaston Hall is a country house (albeit now in the middle of the city) in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England.

Early in the Civil War, Edgbaston Hall along with Hawksley House on Clent Ridge, was a stronghold of Colonel John Fox, the so-called “Jovial Tinker’. The Edgbaston Garrison musters from 19th August 1645 to 30th April 1646, can be found among the accounts of the Warwickshire County Committee, along with musters, warrants, levy assessments and other documents submitted by field officers and garrison commanders to be examined by the county committee of accounts. The garrison muster from 1645 lists about 40 soldiers and officers, including Thomas Rawlins, ‘a prisoner’. The Edgbaston garrison troops had a fearsome reputation, making forays into the sounding villages for provisions and plunder and raiding rival royalist strongholds. They were highly mobile and so could be shifted around to augment the parliamentary garrisons at Tamworth, Coventry and Warwick [1].

In 1717, Sir Richard Gough purchased the hall from Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconbergand commenced to have it rebuilt. In 1776, Sir Henry Gough commissioned Capability Brown to lay out the park.

It was later home to William Withering and since 1936, thanks to negotiations initiated by The Birmingham Civic Society with the owner, Calthorpe Estates, it has been the clubhouse for Edgbaston Golf Club.

Edgbaston Hall, and its lodge house, are Grade II listed buildings.