Consall Estate redevelopment

ctd architects have played an integrative role in the extensive redevelopment of the 71 acre, Consall Hall Estate site in North Staffordshire to develop the existing buildings into a bespoke, high-quality hospitality venue and ‘deconstructive’ hotel.

The client, Consall Hall Estates, have extensively redeveloped the site which now includes ‘Foxtail Barns’ Wedding Venue and ‘The Tawny Hotel’ which incorporates high-end boutique accommodation lodges set within the gardens.

Lying eight miles east of Stoke-on-Trent, Consall Hall gardens became the life project of William Podmore, who inherited the estate in the 1950s. He set about constructing an extraordinary 70-acre garden in a valley scarred by decades of mining. An engineer by birth, Podmore had both the technical know-how and the vision to sculpt lakes, build dams, fashion bridges and ridges to create an intricate landscape of descending gardens, drawing the eye to different vistas and viewpoints along the way.

As a collector, much along the lines of Clough Williams-Ellis at Portmeirion in North Wales, Podmore purchased numerous architectural remnants from old country houses in the 1960s and incorporated them into Consall’s landscape as follies or features including stone steps, balustrades, a fountain, grotto, and a cloister.

ctd architects managed the project, from concept to completion, overseeing the development from the demolition of the existing tired hall and workshop buildings, through to the creation of the new statement hotel hub/restaurant building ‘The Plumicorn’ and associated ‘deconstructed’ hotel accommodation, as well as the purpose-built wedding venue ‘Foxtail Barns’.