Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum
| Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum | |
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Interactive map of the Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum area | |
| Former names | West Bromwich Manor House The Manor House Restaurant The Manor House Pub Bromwic Hall The Old Hall West Bromwich Old Hall |
| General information | |
| Location | Hall Green Road, West Bromwich, England |
| Coordinates | 52°32′48″N 1°59′36″W / 52.5467°N 1.9932°W |
| Completed | 1270 (approximately) |
| Opened | May 2010 |
| Owner | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Website | |
| Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council - Bromwich Hall, The Manor House Museum | |
Bromwich Hall - The Manor House Museum is an important, Grade I listed, medieval domestic building (a hall house) built by Richard de Marnham around 1270 as the centre of his agricultural estate in West Bromwich.
Only the Great Hall survives of the original complex of living quarters, agricultural barns, sheds and ponds. Successive occupants modernised and extended the manor house until it was described in 1790 as "a large pile of irregular half-timbered buildings, black and white, and surrounded with numerous out-houses and lofty walls." The building was saved from demolition in the 1950s by West Bromwich Corporation which carried out an extensive and sympathetic restoration of this nationally important building.
Today the museum is run by the Sandwell Museum Service.