Boscobel House is a house located on the Shropshire\/Staffordshire border , near Wolverhamptonand Albrighton , England . It was built around 1632 when landowner John Gifford of White Ladies Priory turned a farmhouse into a hunting lodge . Boscobel House , in the parish of Boscobel on the Shropshire\/Staffordshire border , near Wolverhampton and Albrighton , England , was built around 1632 , when landowner John Giffard of White Ladies Priory converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge .