by Sir Rowland Hill, 4th Baronet Hill of Hawkstone, 2nd Viscount Hill (1800 -- 1875) who, through extravagance or mismanagement, lost much of the family fortune. Inside, he commissioned, between 1832-4, various alterations including a new drawing room from Sir Matthew Wyatt, whilst in the grounds he carved a hugely expensive new drive through a cliff and built The Citadel , a strange castle-like dower house.  He even toyed with the idea of relocating the entire house to the other side of the river. Such spending was always likely to lead to difficulties and the 3rd Viscount, Rowland Clegg-Hill, (b.1833 -- d.1895), never managed to re-establish the fortune and was bankrupt by the time of his death.  This forced a sale of the contents and then the splitting up of the estate in 1906.  The park, with the many follies, tunnels and caves, was sold off and is now run as part of the Hawkstone Park hotel . The Hall was bought by George Whitely, later Baron Marchamley of Hawkstone , a wealthy mill and brewery owner and MP, who made minor alterations; reducing the height and length of the projecting wings and to the interior. The house was then sold to the Roman Catholic Redemptorists who have remained there until a recent review of their activities prompted them to put the house, with its 7-acres of gardens and 81-acres of grounds, up for sale for 5m.  Any purchaser looking to make this a home again will need to demolish