Leighton Hall, Powys
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Leighton Hall
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| Coordinates | 52°38′01″N 3°07′21″W / 52.633531°N 3.122577°WCoordinates: 52°38′01″N 3°07′21″W / 52.633531°N 3.122577°W |
| OS grid reference | SJ 2411604585 |
| Built | 1850–56 |
| Architect | W. H. Gee, possibly to designs by James Kellaway Colling |
| Architectural style(s) | Castellated Victorian Gothic Country House |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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 Location of Leighton Hall, Powys in Powys
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Leighton Home Farm Hay Barn
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| Built | Model Farm 1847-c.1860 |
| Architect | Poundley and Walker |
| Architectural style(s) | 19th century Model Farm |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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Leighton Hall is an estate located to the east of Welshpool in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys, in Wales. Leighton Hall is a listed grade I property. It is located on the opposite side of the valley of the river Severn to Powis Castle. The Leighton Hall Estate is particularly notable for the Hall which was decorated and furnished by the Craces to designs by Pugin in his Houses of Parliament style, and for the Home Farm, a model farm , which was to be in the forefront of the Victorian industrialised High Farming. Leighton Hall was also the birthplace of the much disparaged hybrid Cupressocyparis leylandii hedge tree. The Hall is now in private ownership and is not accessible to the public, although it can still be viewed from the road. The Home Farm is currently under restoration.
The Estate was in the ownership of the Corbett family until the early years of the and passed by marriage to the Lloyds. A half-timbered house, dating from, was built for Humphrey Lloyd, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire about 1541. Lloyd was elected the M.P. for Montgomeryshire in 1545 and 1547. The house then passed back to Sir Uvedale Corbett around 1650 and a detailed map of the Leighton Estates in 1663, by William Fowler, exists in the Powis Castle Archives at the National Library of Wales. The map shows The Inheritance of Sir Richard Corbett and the Manor of Leighton. A deer park is believed to have been established in the north park within this period, the park itself extending west and south to Kingswood village. Sir Richard, Uvedale Corbetts' son, took advantage of the wooded eastern slopes of the park in the early eighteenth century, felling large areas of oak for sale to the Admiralty.
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