The old manor house of Wyche (later called Droitwich) and known as St Andrews was built in the Elizabethan Age. It is a delightful timber framed structure with Oak beams on the site of an earlier Medieval Manor House.

One of England’s greatest saints and finest scholars, St Richard De Wyche, or as he is called in Sussex, St Richard of Chichester was born in a house on the original site of this building.

Many years later in the same building King Charles I lodged for three days in 1645, en route for the storming of Leicester.

In 1879 John Corbett the ‘Salt King’ as he was known locally acquired this property and our current sister hotel the Chateau Impney also in Droitwich Spa and arranged for its conversion into a hotel to satisfy the increasing demand for accommodation arising from the growing number of visitors to the now famous ‘Droitwich Brine Baths’.

The building is now currently called ‘The Raven Hotel’ since the Corbett family coat of arms was based on a black Raven situated on the background of a gold shield. The hotel currently has 72 bedrooms and numerous conference facilities from 2 up to 100 guests and banqueting for up to 220 guests and forms an important part of Droitwich’s history and current ambience.