Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire

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Hawkstone Hall is a 43,400 square feet (4,030 m2) early 18th-century country mansion near Hodnet and Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire, England which was more recently occupied as the pastoral center of a religious organization for many years. It is a Grade I listed building.

It has been converted to a wedding and events venue with hotel bedrooms. It is on the edge of Hawkstone Park, which is now running separately.

The house was built between 1701 and 1725 by Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1655–1727), second of the Hill Baronets, of Hawkstone.

The house was sold to the Liberal politician George Whitely, who had previously represented Stockport and Pudsey in the House of Commons, where he was a Liberal whip in Parliament – ​​later to become Baron Marchamley in 1908. George Whiteley had the hall renovated and the wings reduced in length by William Tomkinsons of Liverpool, supervised by H.P. Dallow, brother in law of Henry Price. The chapel wing was reconstructed as a games room with dance floor and the other wing as servants' quarters.

The hall was acquired after Lord Marchamley's death by the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Order in 1926 and, until 1973, was a seminary. The Order added a chapel in 1932 and further extended the Hall in 1962, converting the north-east service wing into a residential wing. The seminary relocated in 1973, and since 1975 the Hall has been a Pastoral and Renewal Center.

Hawkstone was put on the market in 2014. It was bought by The Distinctly Hospitable Group Ltd. in August 2017. The new owners received change of use planning permission, for a hotel wedding/events venue. These changes took place in 2017-2018. Members of the Hill family expressed their disappointment at the change to commercial use.