Madeley Court Hotel, Telford

Madeley Court is a 16th century manor house in Madeley, Telford, originally a country residence and later converted to a country house hotel. Serco took the site onto its Midlands Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contract for the Home Office and ran it as contingency asylum accommodation for over four years, with residents accommodated in the manor's 50 bedrooms including a number of four poster suites^[2]Press.

In February 2026 the Shropshire Star reported that the Home Office had confirmed Madeley Court would stop housing asylum seekers in the coming weeks, with Serco announcing it would close the manor and three other hotels by 19 April 2026 as part of the wider scale-down of the asylum hotel estate^[1]Press.

Telford Live confirmed in April 2026 that Telford MP Shaun Davies had received Home Office confirmation that Madeley Court had now closed and would no longer be used for asylum accommodation. Residents are being moved into dispersal accommodation comprising self contained or shared houses and flats elsewhere in the Midlands^[3]Press.

GB News reported a contracted nightly rate of around £150 per room at Madeley Court. At full 50 room asylum occupancy that implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £7,500 per night and roughly £2.7 million per year. Across the four hotels in this Serco closure tranche, the government has said the taxpayer will save nearly £65 million a year^[2]Press.

The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year and recorded 222 hotels still in use at the time of the audit^[5]NAO. The Migration Observatory benchmark of £170 per person per day is used here for consistency with other site profiles^[4].