Stretton Hall

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Stretton Hall is a privately owned early 18th century mansion house at Stretton, South Staffordshire. It is the home of a branch of the Monckton family descended from John Monckton 1st Viscount Galway. It is a Grade II* listed building but is not open the public.

The house built by John Congreve in about 1700 was originally two storeyed with dormers above, a three bay pedimented central block and two bayed wings with a central pedimented entrance door.

General Henry Monckton purchased the estate in about 1845 and in about 1858 the family left Somerford Hall to settle at Stretton. In the 1860s Francis Monckton carried out extensive alterations including a third storey and a new entrance front.

Several members of the family have served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire, the latest being Mrs Joanna Bird Monckton in 1995.