Malvern, Worcestershire - Birtsmorton Court from air - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Birtsmoreton Court (sic), Worcestershire [Birtsmorton Court]
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• Notes / condition: very small creases near top edge

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Birtsmorton Court is a Grade I listed fortified medieval moated manor house near Malvern in Worcestershire, in the former woodlands of Malvern Chase.^[1]

It is located in Birtsmorton, a small agricultural parish 7 miles south-east of Malvern Wells, Worcestershire and 8 miles west of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The house was the setting for William Samuel Symonds's historical novel Malvern Chase.

It has unfortunately been involved in a police incident following wedding gifts being stolen from the premises in August 2018, is being reported to the Information Commissioners Office for a data breach and is in need of Health & Safety improvements.

The manor is mentioned in the Domesday Book; the present house, partly half-timbered built on a courtyard plan, is in part of the 13th century. In 1424–25 Birtsmorton became the seat of John Nanfan, who had most of the earlier structure demolished before his death in about 1447.^[4]The house was remodelled for Giles Nanfan in about 1572,^[5] as heraldry in the Great Hall suggests. The last male heir, Bridges Nanfan, left the estate to his daughter Catherine.^[6]

The present aspect of the house is in part due to antiquarian restoration and emendation by Frederick S. Waller, 1871–72.^[7] The east range was destroyed by fire in the 18th century and rebuilt in 1929–30 by A. Hill Parker and Son, in what Brooks and Pevsner called a "successful pastiche".^[8]

William Huskisson was born at Birtsmorton Court on 11 March 1770 and spent his childhood here until he was 13.^[9] The house was a setting for William Samuel Symonds' historical novel Malvern Chase.^[3]

The house is now privately owned and available for special events.