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Cloverley was designed by W Eden Nesfield
for John Pemberton Heywood,
a
Liverpool banker, in 1868 and was one of the first
Victorian country homes to in corporate a great
hall.
When it was finished it was four
storeys high and had twenty five servants to look
after his family.
W Eden
Nesfield
(c) National Portrait Gallery,
London
Between
the wars the main house was demolished, the
principal rooms regrouped and the main wing
rebuilt with material from the original building.
Most of the existing building is original
and is still very impressive with mullioned
windows, soft red brick and tall
chimneys. | 
