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{{Short description|Country house in Forton, Staffordshire, England}}
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[[File:Aqualate Hall - geograph.org.uk - 566469.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Aqualate Hall in [[Staffordshire]]]]
[[File:Aqualate mere gatehouse.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|A private estate, nobody can walk past the Gatehouse to Aqualate Hall]]
'''Aqualate Hall''', a 20th-century [[English country house|country house]], is located in [[Forton, Staffordshire|Forton]], [[Staffordshire]], [[England]], some {{convert|2|mi}} east of the [[market town]] of [[Newport, Shropshire|Newport]], [[Shropshire]] and {{convert|10|mi}} west of the county town of [[Stafford]]. It is a [[Grade II* listed building]].<ref name="HG">{{cite web|url= https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1259928|title= Name: AQUALATE HALL List entry Number: 1259928|publisher= Historic England|accessdate= 21 March 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191110200052/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1259928|archive-date= 10 November 2019|url-status= live}}</ref>

==History==

The site of the house may have been occupied in Roman times as two food vessels were found during drainage of the grounds.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chittu |first1=Lily |title=Twin Food-vessels preserved at Aqualate Hall, Staffordshire |journal=The Antiquaries Journal |date=1929 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=137–140 |doi=10.1017/S0003581500050794 |s2cid=162223055 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquaries-journal/article/twin-foodvessels-preserved-at-aqualate-hall-staffordshire/FA458D458A00204B5FC7911301E60A52 |access-date=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318060835/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquaries-journal/article/twin-foodvessels-preserved-at-aqualate-hall-staffordshire/FA458D458A00204B5FC7911301E60A52 |archive-date=18 March 2020 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The first manor house on the site, built above the [[Aqualate Mere]] in the 16th century by Thomas Skrymsher<ref name="HG"/> was rebuilt for Edwin Skrymsher (Member of Parliament for [[Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)|Stafford]]) in the 17th century<ref name="HG"/> just after he had completed nearby [[Forton Hall]]. The original building remained in much the same style until, [[Boughey baronets|Sir John Boughey]] bought the house in the late 18th century and in 1808 commissioned [[John Nash (architect)|John Nash]] to rebuild it in the Gothic style.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Hall fire which broke out on 28 November 1910 |url=http://search.shropshirehistory.org.uk/collections/getrecord/NHS_N001596/ |publisher=Discovering Shropshire's History |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kingsley |first1=Nicholas |title=Aqualate Hall |url=https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1030699173006454784.html |publisher=Thread Reader |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref> Sir Thomas Boughey developed the house, grounds and associated village in the 1830s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forton and Meretown Conservation Area Appraisal |url=https://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/sites/default/files/cme/DocMan1/Planning%20Policy/Conservation/Conservation%20Areas/Conservation%20Areas%20List/Forton-and-Meretown-Conervation-Area-Appraisal.pdf |publisher=Stafford Borough Council |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref>

The building was destroyed by fire on 28 November 1910.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Hall |url=http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_staffordshire_aqualatehall_info_gallery.html |publisher=Lost Heritage |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919200234/http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_staffordshire_aqualatehall_info_gallery.html |archive-date=19 September 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The present house, which incorporates some elements of the 17th-century house and of Nash's Gothic successor, was built between 1927 and 1930 by [[W. D. Caröe]]. An original range of gables by Nash joins the new house to an 18th-century stable block.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Hall |url=https://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=2134&PageIndex=3&SearchType=2&ThemeID=86 |publisher=Staffordshire Past Track |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref>

During [[World War II]] the house was used an evacuation home.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Hall |url=http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/FortonDB/?LMCL=j2BzwQ |publisher=Children's Homes |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref> The grounds were used as a military transport base run by the [[Auxiliary Territorial Service]]. The [[Nissen hut]]s which they left behind were then used by the homeless until 1952.<ref name="neal">{{cite news |last1=Neal |first1=Toby |title=Military invasion which left estate in a state |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/nostalgia/2017/11/03/military-invasion-which-left-estate-in-a-state/ |accessdate=21 March 2020 |work=Shropshire Star |date=3 November 2017}}</ref>

==Etymology==
The name Aqualate is from [[Anglo-Saxon language|Anglo-Saxon]] ''Āc-gelād'', possibly in the sense "difficult passage over wet ground by the oak trees"; there is much wet and boggy ground in the area and a [[Aqualate mere|mere]], although [[Eilert Ekwall]] suggests [[Old English]] ''Āc-gelãd'' meaning "oak stream".<ref>{{cite book|last=Ekwall|first=Eilert|authorlink=Eilert Ekwall|title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names|year=1960|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-869103-7|page=11}}</ref>

==Architecture==

The square red brick building has clay tile roofs. It has a service wing on the east side.<ref name="HG"/> The north front has a two-storey polygonal porch, two projecting [[Cant (architecture)|canted]] bays and is decorated with [[Roll of Arms|armorial]] shields and a carved head which used to be on a gatepost.<ref name="HG"/> In the grounds can be found stables, two Gothic lodge-houses, and a red brick house with an attached castellated tower.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stabling at Aqualate |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1242643 |website=National Heritage List for England |publisher=Historic England |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111101620/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1242643 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Castle |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1259901 |website=National Heritage List for England |publisher=Historic England |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111095717/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1259901 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Root Store, Aqualate Hall |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393492 |website=National Heritage List for England |publisher=Historic England |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111103455/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393492 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cow House, Aqualate Hall |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393493 |website=National Heritage List for England |publisher=Historic England |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111104329/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393493 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

There is now no sign of the original formal gardens but the boundary of the [[Medieval deer park|deer park]] can still be identified.<ref name="EngNat">{{Cite web |url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/nnr/nnr_details.asp?NNR_ID=4 |title=English Nature page on Aqualate Mere |access-date=8 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525084617/http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/nnr/nnr_details.asp?NNR_ID=4 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Aqualate Hall |url=https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/aqualate-hall |publisher=Parks and Gardens |accessdate=21 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303215139/https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/aqualate-hall |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> This contains plantations of [[oak]] trees.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Boughey Family |url=http://www.stb.academy/information/school-history/the-boughey-family/ |publisher=Sit Thomas Boughey Academy |accessdate=21 March 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Grade II* listed buildings in Stafford (borough)]]
*[[Listed buildings in Forton, Staffordshire]]
*[[Aqualate mere]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Houses completed in the 16th century]]
[[Category:Houses completed in the 17th century]]
[[Category:Houses completed in 1930]]
[[Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Gardens in Staffordshire]]
[[Category:Buildings by W. D. Caröe]]

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