Leighton Hall

Leighton Hall is a country house built in 1778, likely incorporating parts of an earlier structure. It was significantly extended and remodeled in 1887-1888 by W. Bowdler of Shrewsbury for T.F. Kynnersley. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features rusticated angle quoins. It has a plain tile hipped roof with a coped eaves parapet and red brick ridge and end stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics.

The south front, which serves as the main entrance, has a symmetrical arrangement of three, two, and three bays, with full-height canted bay projections on both the left and right sides. The windows are glazing bar sashes with segmental heads, although the glazing bars have been removed from the bottom of the ground floor windows. A late 19th-century classical-style portico connects the canted bays and features an arcade of three elliptical arches, topped with a balustrade that displays the pedimented Kynnersley coat-of-arms at the center. There are also two late 18th-century lead downpipes at the angles of the canted bays.

On the left and right returns, there are two late 19th-century canted bay projections that resemble the 18th-century canted bays on the front. At the rear, there is a late 18th-century service range that includes a two-storey rectangular hip-roofed block with a top-lit pavilion, as well as a long two-storey range built in the late 19th and 20th centuries. An inscription next to the late 19th-century glazed doors on the south front notes the rebuilding of the house for T.F. Kynnersley.

The interior has been considerably altered and remodeled in 1887-1888. An oak staircase is said to date from this period, while the rectangular oak panelling in the entrance hall is likely from the 17th century or earlier, as indicated by the cock's head hinges on the panelled inner door. A Jacobean wooden overmantel in the room to the right of the entrance has been relocated from another site, and there are reportedly panelled bedrooms on the first floor. The windows of the right-hand canted bay on the south front feature late 18th-century shutters. A photograph of the house prior to the 1887-1888 renovations can be found on page 95 of Peter Reid's Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Volume II (1980), as well as in Francis Leach's The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891), pages 201-203.