Historic Shropshire wedding venue plans new breakfast room
Owners of The Barns at Delbury Hall want to replace a dilapidated greenhouse with a modern replacement in the hope of boosting bookings and local jobs
A wedding venue housed at a Georgian country estate in south Shropshire has unveiled plans for a new breakfast room.
The owners of The Barns at Delbury Hall, in Diddlebury near Craven Arms, want to replace a dilapidated greenhouse on the historic site with a brand new breakfast room for wedding guests.
The existing greenhouse has not been used for more than a decade and is now overgrown with plants.
Its replacement would be built on the same spot in the walled garden next to the Delbury Hall Coach House wedding venue, according to a new planning application lodged with Shropshire Council.
It would be glass sided and just used as a breakfast room for guests the morning after the big day.
Documents lodged in support of the new application said: "The replacement greenhouse will be used for breakfast the day after a wedding which will be a massive improvement on the existing breakfast room in the Coach House stables accommodation.
"It would also be a shame to knock down the existing greenhouse and not replace it with a new one which will keep the character of the greenhouse within the walled garden.
"It is hoped that, by making a much nicer breakfast room, it will mean more people will book to get married at Delbury Hall which will in turn provide more employment and jobs in the area for people working at the weddings.
"The proposed new greenhouse will have no impact on the historic value of Delbury Hall (and) will be a significant improvement.
"It will provide a much nicer location for breakfast the day after the wedding and it will mean that the traditional greenhouse, so important historically in a walled garden, will be re-introduced into the garden."
Delbury Hall is a grade II*-listed building whose origins date back nearly three centuries. In 1752, Captain Frederick Cornewall knocked down a timber frame house and built what is now Delbury Hall over four years at a cost of £1,757.
He moved there after retiring from the navy in 1763 and the hall was later bought by Vincent Wrigley in 1919 after he ran a successful cotton manufacturing business in Oldham.
It is now lived in by his grandson Patrick Wrigley who runs the wedding business alongside his son Jack and wife Lucia.
The stables, also built during the 1700s, were used to keep horses and converted into accommodation by the owners at the turn of this century while the Coach House, once used to store wages and horse carts, became a wedding venue in 2007.
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