Leighton Hall
LEIGHTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055268
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Leighton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGHTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055268
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Leighton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGHTON HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGHTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leighton and Eaton Constantine
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6123105123
Details
LEIGHTON AND EATON CONSTANTINE C.P.
SJ 60 NW
2/98
29.1.52
GV
LEIGHTON
Leighton Hall
II
Country house. 1778, probably incorporating parts of an earlier house,
considerably extended and re-modelled 1887-8 by W. Bowdler of Shrewsbury
for T.F. Kynnersley. Red brick with ashlar dressings and rusticated
angle quoins, plain tile hipped roof behind coped eaves parapet, red
brick ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys and attics; south front: now
the main entrance front; 3:2:3 bays with full-height canted bay
projections to left and right, glazing bar sashes with segmental
heads (glazing bars removed to bottom of windows on ground floor);
late C19 classical-style portico linking canted bays has an arcade of
3 elliptical arches, surmounted by balustrade with pedimented Kynnersley
coat-of-arms to centre; 2 late C18 lead downpipes in angles with
canted bays; left and right returns each have 2 late C19 canted bay
projections similar to C18 canted bays on front. Late C18 service
range to rear includes 2-storey rectangular hip-roofed block with
top-lit pavilion; long 2-storey 8-bay late C19 and C20 range behind.
An inscription to right of late C19 glazed doors to south front records
the re-building of the house for T.F. Kynnersley. Interior: considerably
altered and re-modelled 1887-8; oak staircase said to be of this date
but the rectangular oak panelling re-used in the entrance hall is
probably C17 or earlier (see also the cock's head hinges to the panelled
inner door); Jacobean wooden overmantel in room to right of entrance
has been brought from elsewhere and there are said to be panelled
bedrooms on first floor; late C18 shutters to windows of right-hand
canted bay on south front. There is a photograph of the house before 1887-8
onp.95 of Peter Reid's Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses,
Vol. II (1980); Francis Leach, The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891),
Pp.201-3; B.o.E., p.165.
Listing NGR: SJ6123105123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leach, F, The County Seats of Shropshire, (1891)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 95
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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