Chatwall Hall was the house of the Corfield family, who had been established at the property, below the south-east slopes of the Lawley hill since the late sixteenth century. In 1613 Thomas Corfield (d. 1657), Recorder of Wenlock, is known to have extended the house and his work is probably now represented by the surviving timber-framed east range.

Thomas’s son, Richard (1613–1680), who added to the family’s landholding by acquiring Leahills in circa 1648, is said to have fortified the house in the Civil War and the house was reputedly attacked. Richard was responsible for a rebuilding of the house which created the hall and west range of 1659. The house was never large, having just four hearths in 1672, and its main façade is now distinguished by small mullioned windows set into two big gables of differing size. On the inner gable is set a later porch with a bold bolection moulded doorway which must date to the early years of the eighteenth century. Panelling inside Chatwall is dated 1659 and bears the initials CRS, representing Richard Corfield (1613–1680) and his wife Sarah (d. 1688), daughter of Roger Maunsell. Richard’s son and namesake acquired further land in 1696 and, ultimately, Chatwall descended to his granddaughter Ann, the wife of Robert Rawlins. Ann’s son, R.C. Rawlins was the owner in 1773, but his son Thomas, a Liverpool merchant, was declared bankrupt in 1798 and emigrated to America. Chatwall was acquired by another Liverpool merchant, Cornelius Bourne (d. 1804), descending to his grandson, the Rev. G. Drinkwater Bourne. The clergyman sold Chatwall with just 247 acres to Richard Butcher who, in 1895, sold an enlarged landholding of 388 acres to Joseph Edge and E.B. Potts.

Four years later, Chatwall was repurchased by a member of the Corfield family, Frederick Channer Corfield (1849–1904), who divided his time between Shropshire and Ormonde Fields, Derbyshire. Frederick’s son, Brigadier Frederick Alleyne Corfield DSO, OBE (1884–1939), sold the Derbyshire estate in 1911 and was seated solely at his family’s Shropshire estate. He was the father of Sir Frederick Vernon Corfield PC (1915–2005), who served as MP for Gloucestershire South from 1955 and was a Minister of Aviation Supply and later Aerospace from 1971. Sir Frederick sold Chatwall in 1951 and farmed in Oxfordshire.