The Coughton estate has been owned by the Throckmorton family since 1409, but the oldest section of the building is the Tudor gatehouse (shown here) dating from 1530. The Hall holds a place in English history for its roles in both the Throckmorton Plot of 1583 to murder Queen Elizabeth, and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, although the Throckmorton family were themselves only indirectly implicated in the latter, when some of the Gunpowder conspirators rode directly there after its discovery.
