Description:Pictured on the left is the Clock Tower and the former Sculpture Gallery, on the right is the Carriage Porch. These buildings form part of the original courtyard which also included a riding school, they have been fenced off and awaiting renovation and redevelopment.
Trentham Hall was built in the 1630s for the Dukes of Sutherland. The Caroline house was replaced in the early eighteenth century by one in a Classical style. Capability Brown and Henry Holland worked on the landscape and hall between 1768 and 1778.
The house was redesigned in an Italianate style in the nineteenth century by Sir Charles Barry, who also laid out Italian gardens to the front of the hall.
Trentham Hall was abandoned by the family as a permanent residence in 1905. In 1910 the Duke of Sutherland offered the hall to the County of Staffordshire and the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The offer was refused and the building was demolished, apart from the west front and stable block (the brewhouse still stands). The tower was re-erected on the Sandon Hall Estate.
Today the grounds have been developed as a tourist attraction and exhibition, conference and leisure centre.