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Chateau Impney Hotel & Exhibition Centre is a Grade II* listed 19th-century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. Of the large mansions in Worcestershire supported by industrial fortunes, Sir Nicolas Pevsner judged Impney to be "the showiest of them all in the county". Once a family home for local industrialist John Corbett, Chateau Impney has been a hotel since 1925.
Chateau Impney has 106 bedrooms, including boutique-styled rooms in the main building, and houses the Impney Restaurant and Bar and the Grand Bar, which features an oak-carved Jacobean staircase that extends upwards throughout the building and views that incorporate the Malvern Hills.
The hotel is also home to a number of conferencing facilities, including the Regent Centre, which is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the West Midlands.
Chateau Impney announced in 2020 that it would permanently close.
Situated in extensive landscaped gardens, Impney Hall, as it was previously known, was designed from 1869 onwards and built in 1873–75 for local industrialist the saltworks magnate John Corbett in the Louis XIII style. It was a gift for Corbett's wife, Hannah Eliza O'Meara, who was of mixed French/Irish descent and had been raised in Paris, where her father was secretary to the Diplomatic Corps. Corbett applied for designs to the Parisian architect Auguste Tronquois, and employed the Beaux-Arts trained English architect Richard Phené Spiers as executive architect on site; the house cost GBP £247,000 (equivalent to £16,685,895.00 in 2007), to satisfy her nostalgia for Paris. The marriage was not a happy one, and she later took up residence in one of Corbett's properties in Tywyn, North Wales.
After Anna left, Corbett opened up the parkland and gardens that surrounded Impney Hall to the public every Wednesday, so that they could enjoy strolling through the estate and view the wildlife.
Corbett died in 1901 and left the estate to his brother, Thomas. When Thomas died in 1906, Impney Hall was let to a number of different families, including the Mitchell family of Birmingham, who were wealthy pen manufacturers.[citation needed] However, after the First World War, the house lay empty for some years.
In 1925, Impney Hall was sold to James Ward of Worcester for £15,000. James had been one of the original builders of the house, and by 1925 was himself a proprietor of Joseph Wood & Sons of Worcester. In that year, following a partial restoration and modernisation, the property was opened to residents as Impney Manor Hotel.
Chateau Impney
Chateau Impney Hotel & Exhibition Centre is a Grade II* listed 19th-century house built in the style of an elaborate French château near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. Of the large mansions in Worcestershire supported by industrial fortunes, Sir Nicolas Pevsner judged Impney to be "the showiest of them all in the county". Once a family home for local industrialist John Corbett, Chateau Impney has been a hotel since 1925.
Chateau Impney has 106 bedrooms, including boutique-styled rooms in the main building, and houses the Impney Restaurant and Bar and the Grand Bar, which features an oak-carved Jacobean staircase that extends upwards throughout the building and views that incorporate the Malvern Hills.
The hotel is also home to a number of conferencing facilities, including the Regent Centre, which is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the West Midlands.
Chateau Impney announced in 2020 that it would permanently close.
Situated in extensive landscaped gardens, Impney Hall, as it was previously known, was designed from 1869 onwards and built in 1873–75 for local industrialist the saltworks magnate John Corbett in the Louis XIII style. It was a gift for Corbett's wife, Hannah Eliza O'Meara, who was of mixed French/Irish descent and had been raised in Paris, where her father was secretary to the Diplomatic Corps. Corbett applied for designs to the Parisian architect Auguste Tronquois, and employed the Beaux-Arts trained English architect Richard Phené Spiers as executive architect on site; the house cost GBP £247,000 (equivalent to £16,685,895.00 in 2007), to satisfy her nostalgia for Paris. The marriage was not a happy one, and she later took up residence in one of Corbett's properties in Tywyn, North Wales.
After Anna left, Corbett opened up the parkland and gardens that surrounded Impney Hall to the public every Wednesday, so that they could enjoy strolling through the estate and view the wildlife.
Corbett died in 1901 and left the estate to his brother, Thomas. When Thomas died in 1906, Impney Hall was let to a number of different families, including the Mitchell family of Birmingham, who were wealthy pen manufacturers.[citation needed] However, after the First World War, the house lay empty for some years.
In 1925, Impney Hall was sold to James Ward of Worcester for £15,000. James had been one of the original builders of the house, and by 1925 was himself a proprietor of Joseph Wood & Sons of Worcester. In that year, following a partial restoration and modernisation, the property was opened to residents as Impney Manor Hotel.
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