Plans of the Manor House, Tittensor
This is a chamber plan of the Manor House, Tittensor. The plan shows seven bedrooms including a room for servants. The housemaid’s closet was situated on the first floor of the house. A laundry also features ...
Mickle House Farm, Stone
This plan shows farm buildings at Mickle House in Stone with proposed alterations, additions and repairs. The drawing includes a plan of the outbuildings at the farm for pigs, cows and bulls and also ...
Trentham Park in the 1890s
One of the most intriguing documents relating to Trentham is the large notice featured above. This is the draft of a notice which was printed to provide information to people visiting Trentham Park in ...
The Borough of Stafford, 1838
The plan above shows the Borough of Stafford in 1838. The town centre can be seen in the middle of the plan, including the Market Hall Square and the main high street, Greengate Street. Eastgate Street, ...
Hill Chorlton Farm
The Sutherland Papers contain many detailed plans of properties in Staffordshire from the nineteenth century.
This plan of Hill Chorlton Farm shows how the farmhouse and working buildings on the farm ...
Barlaston Houses
The Sutherland Papers contain a wide variety of plans of Staffordshire properties, including a number of houses in Barlaston. These fascinating documents tell us about the design of domestic properties ...
Thomas Smith’s Accounts for the Lilleshall Estate, 1668-1671
The document featured above is taken from Thomas Smith’s Accounts for the Lilleshall Estate for February and March 1670. Smith was an estate agent working for Sir Thomas Gower. The Accounts provide a ...
The Accounts of William Steward for Lilleshall and Wolverhampton, 1855-1856
The Estate Accounts in the Sutherland Papers contain a wealth of information about life on the Sutherland estates in Staffordshire and Shropshire from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The image ...
Pigs at Lilleshall Lodge
The image above shows a plan and elevation of a Pig Box for Lilleshall Lodge, made in April 1913. The drawing shows that the pig box was divided from the store and a room annotated with the name ‘calf ...
Ground and Chamber Plan of Lilleshall Lodge, 1908
The image above shows a ground and chamber plan of Lilleshall Lodge made in April 1908. Pencil annotations on the plan show proposed alterations to the property made in the early twentieth century.
The ...
Designing the Interiors of Stafford House
The image above shows an extract from a document entitled ‘Queries to be submitted to the Marquis of Stafford relative to the completion of York House’. The document details work which was outstanding ...
The Foxley Charity in Trentham, 1670
In her will, made in 1670, Lady Katherine Leveson, the wife of Sir Richard Leveson (1698-1661), established the Foxley Charity. This charity provided money for the maintenance of widows and poor children ...
Agricultural Trentham: ‘Mr Thomas Doody his Disbursements from the 24th of December 1678 till the 18th of July 1679’
The image above shows a page from accounts made by Thomas Doody relating to agricultural work on the Trentham Estate in the late seventeenth century. Doody’s accounts describe payments made by the estate ...
Trentham Estate Accounts in the Sutherland Papers
The Estate Accounts in the Sutherland Papers form one of the most fascinating sections of the collection. Spanning over hundreds of years, these papers and volumes kept by agents working for the Leveson-Gower ...
The New House at Trentham, 1630-1639
Trentham Hall was passed down through generations of the Leveson family to Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) who built a new house at Trentham in 1630. Work on this new property took just under nine years ...
Domestic Life: An Inventory of the Household Furniture at Trentham Hall, 1826
The image above shows a page from the ‘Inventory of the Household Furniture at Trentham Hall’ which was made in 1826. The Inventory includes details of furniture in the servants’ rooms, including the ...
William Lewis's Memoranda Book
William Lewis was employed as an Estate Agent on the Sutherland estates in the early nineteenth century, taking over from Francis Suther in 1817. Lewis was responsible for overseeing the Leveson-Gower ...
James Trubshaw (1777-1853)
Local builder and engineer James Trubshaw was born in Colwich in 1777. Best known for his work on the Grosvenor Bridge over the River Dee in Chester, Trubshaw also worked on the Wolseley Bridge in Staffordshire.
Trubshaw ...