Berry Hall Farm is a moated, fifteenth century half-timbered property located on Ravenshaw Lane in central Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

. Originally named 'Berry Hall' and also known as 'Old' Berry Hall, it was renamed Berry Hall 'Farm' by Joseph Gillott

Joseph Gillott

Joseph Gillott was an English pen-maker and patron of the arts.- Pen manufacturing :For some time he was a working cutler in his home town Sheffield, but in 1821 he moved to Birmingham, where he found employment in the steel toy trade, the technical name for the manufacture of steel buckles,...

, owner of the Berry Hall estate when he built himself an opulent new home on the estate of the original Hall in the 1870s. Gillott wanted to call his new property 'Berry Hall' and this was his reason for renaming the original 15th century building.

Despite the name change, the halls were known as 'New' and 'Old' Berry Hall.

Berry Hall Farm is still in existence today and has significantly outlived 'New Berry Hall

New Berry Hall

New Berry Hall , on the outskirts of Solihull, England, was built on the estate of the existing Berry Hall Farm , by the son of the successful Birmingham businessman Joseph Gillott in the late 19th Century....

' which was demolished in the late 1980s.

External links

• Drawing of Old Berry Hall