Chillington Hall is a Georgian country house in Codsall Wood, four miles northwest of Wolverhampton, England. The house was designed by Francis Smith in 1724 and John Soane in 1785. The park and lake were landscaped by Capability Brown. Holkham Hall, one of the grandest English country houses not only displayed the owners fashionable and cultivated tastes, but was the epicentre of a vast landed estate, providing employment to hundreds The English country house is generally accepted as a large house or mansion, once in the ownership of an... Wolverhampton is an industrial, commercial and university city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... Francis Smith can refer to: Francis Smith (astronomer), British astronomer Francis Smith (politician), Premier of Tasmania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Sir John Soane (10 September 1753 - 20 January 1837) was a British architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical tradition. ... Lancelot Brown ( 1716 - 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, now remembered as the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due, and Englands greatest gardener. He designed over 200 parks, many of which still endure. ...

In the Domesday Book, Chillington (Cillintone) is entered under Warwickshire as forming part of the estates of William Fitz Corbucion, and it was the latter's grandson, Peter Corbesun of Studley, who granted Chillington to Peter Giffard, his wife's nephew, for a sum of 25 marks and a charger of metal. Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today. ... Warwickshire (pronounced worrickshur or worricksheer) is a landlocked county in central England. ...

The present house is the third on the site. In the 12th Century there was a stone castle upon the site, a small corner of which can be seen in the cellars of the present house, and beside it the original house. This house was replaced by Sir John Giffard in the 1500s. Peter Giffard began the third building by demolishing and replacing part of Sir John's Tudor house in 1724. This rebuilding replaced the existing south front of three storeys in red facing brinks with stone dressing.

In about 1725, Peter Giffard planted the long avenue of oak trees which formed the original approach to the house, but he probably incorporated many existing trees. During the 1770s, Lancelot Brown ("Capability" Brown) designed the landscape park and lake to the south of the house for Thomas Giffard the elder.