Built / Designed For: Richard Prince (Prynce)

House & Family History: Built for a wealthy lawyer in the late 16th century, Whitehall was erected on land appropriated from the estates of Shrewsbury Abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The house itself was very likely built with stone taken from the demolished abbey buildings. In the 1920s Captain Dugdale, probably through the agency of Joseph Duveen, sold at least five Jacobean paneled rooms from Whitehall. Chicago's famous Marshall Field & Co. department store purchased at least one of the Whitehall rooms, which they initially used as a gallery for furniture displays. In the 1940s some of the woodwork was reinstalled in the Marshall Field's president's office; today the Whitehall Room serves as the department store's conference room. Another Whitehall room ended up paneling the chairman's office at Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company (see "Images" section). For much of the last part of the 20th century Whitehall served as the offices of the Shrewsbury Department of Work & Pensions. The house was converted into flats in the early 21st century.

Country Life: XLVII, 200, 1920.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: Richard Prince (Prynce), 16th century. Foster family, until 1925. Dugdale family, early 20th century.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Flats / Multi Family

House Open to Public: No

Historic Houses Member: No