Ferney Hall is a mid Victorian mansion house situated at Onibury, Shropshire. Onibury is a small village and civil parish in southern Shropshire, in the lower division of the hundred of Munslow. Shropshire (ˈʃrɒpʃɪə/ /-ʃə alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated in print only Shrops, is a county in the It is a Grade II listed building. A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance
The estate has had several owners including, in the 16th century the Norton family, and in the 17th century the Ffolliott family followed by Walker in the 19th century. The title of Baron Folliott of Ballyshannon in the Peerage of Ireland was created on 22 January 1620 for Henry Folliott
Designs for new gardens at the old hall appeared in the 'Red Book' of Humphry Repton in 1789. Humphry Repton ( 21 April 1752 &ndash 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century
The present mansion was built on the site of the old hall in 1856 by William Willoughby George Hurt Sitwell, great nephew of Sir Sitwell Sitwell. Sir Sitwell Sitwell 1st Baronet (September 1769 - 14 July 1811) was a British politician and landowner Following a fire which severely damaged the structure achitect Samuel Pountney Smith supervised the rebuilding in 1875.
The property was abandoned in the 1940s and was unoccupied for many years. A four year restoration programme was completed by new owners in 2006.
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