Armitage Park

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Armitage Park (which has recently reverted to an earlier name of Hawkyard Hall) is a 19th century Grade II listed country house at Armitage near Rugeley, Staffordshire which has been converted to use as commercial offices.

The estate was purchased by Nathaniel Lister, (poet and author, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe and uncle of Baron Ribblesdale) following his marriage to Martha Fletcher a Lichfield heiress and he built the house in the Gothic Revival style about 1760.

Josiah Spode IV, greatgrandson of Josiah Spode bought the estate in about 1840 and the house was much altered and extended. During the Spode occupancy the house was known as Spode House. Josiah Spode was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1850.

On Spode's death in 1893 the estate was left to a Dominican Order of Monks and was renamed Hawksyard Monastery.The house was later occupied commercially as a health spa and restaurant. In 2007 it was fully restored by its present owners and converted for use as commercial offices.

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