Cofton Hall is a country house on the Lickey Hills near Cofton Hackett, in the Bromsgrove District of north east Worcestershire, England.^[1] It is a Grade II* listed building.^[2]

Most of the original 14th century building has been destroyed, by a deliberate fire during the English Civil War after a visit by King Charles I, however the hall with a hammer-beam roof survives. The rest of the building was constructed in the 18th century.

The 14th century Hall was originally a timber framed house. The stone walls were added in the Victorian era.^[3]

King Charles I stayed at the hall on the night of 14 May 1645 as guest of the owner, Thomas Jolliffe, during the English Civil War.^[4] The following day, before marching to Chester on 15 May, the Royalist soldiers set the Hall ablaze to prevent it falling into the hands of the Parliamentarian Army.^[5] Only the great hall survived.^[6]

The three-storey six-bay building has a tiled roof.^[2] The entrance has a portico with two doric columns.^[2] The west wing encloses the hall with a hammer-beam roof.^[7] The old hall is 38 feet (12 m) long and 21 feet (6.4 m) wide. The roof has nine hammer-beams with spandrel brackets.^[8] These rest on octagonal corbels of wood.^[4] Each side of the roof has three compartments divided by purlins.^[4]

Beneath the house, and extending beyond their walls are a series of corridors and chambers, totalling more than 200 feet (61 m). This includes a series of "streams", one brick wide and one brick high, which provide a cooling system to three of the chambers. These drain into a sump about 100 yards (91 m) from the house.^[9]

The area around the house are the remains of the foundations of older buildings.^[7]

52.3732°N 1.9865°W / 52.3732; -1.9865