Witley Court

Great Witley, United Kingdom

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Witley Court in Great Witley, Worcestershire, is a ruined Italianate mansion that originated as a seventeenth-century house for the Foley family. It underwent two major transformations: first in the early nineteenth century when architect John Nash dramatically expanded it for Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley, and again in the mid-nineteenth century under the Earls of Dudley, who commissioned architect Samuel Daukes to rebuild it as one of the great Victorian and Edwardian palaces. Following the family's decline and a devastating 1937 fire that heavily damaged the structure, the house fell into disrepair through the mid-twentieth century. Taken into care by the Department of the Environment in 1972, the Grade I listed building and its companion Church of St Michael and All Angels have since undergone significant stabilization, preserving the court as a spectacular ruin.