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Halston Hall is a
Halston Hall is a Grade I listed building
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in the parish
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of Whittington, Shropshire
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, England. A country house
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first built around 1690, it was given protected status in January 1952. Alterations were made to the structure for John Mytton by Robert Mylne around 1766-68 and further work was undertaken during the early- to mid-19th century, for some of which time the property was owned by his grandson, also called John
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but often referred to as "Mad Jack" Mytton.
Richard Mytton had been granted a five-year lease of the whole estate in April 1539 and required to live at Halston, to provide hospitality, and to find a priest for the chapel. The Mytton family was granted ownership of the Halston estates in 1562–63. The estate was split up for sale in 1847, 13 years after the death of Mad Jack. George Wright of Manchester
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bought the hall and of the grounds for £116,095.
The nearby private timber-framed
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chapel is also Grade I listed. Its history is obscure but predates the current hall structure.
The parkland in which the hall is situated was requisitioned for use as a 1084-bed US military hospital during World War II
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. Little evidence of this survives but it comprised over 100 buildings, mostly to the north and north-west of the hall itself. The hospital was disused by 1954. Together with facilities at Penley
Penley () is a village in the County Borough of Wrexham, in Wales close to the border with Shropshire, England, and had a population of 606 as of the 2011 census.
The village was, until 1974, in an exclave of the ancient county of Flintshire ...
, Llanerch Panna, Oteley Deer Park, and Iscoyd Park
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, it formed a part of US Army Hospital Center 804.
The site was visited by ''Time Team
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'' in 2023.
See also
*Garth (Guilsfield)
Garth was an important early gothic revival house in the Townships in Montgomeryshire, township of Garth in Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire. In the 18th century it became the home of the Mytton family who had originally been Shrewsbury drapers, wh ...
*Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire
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* Listed buildings in Whittington, Shropshire
*William Emes
William Emes (1729 or 1730–13 March 1803) was an English landscape gardener.
Biography
Details of his early life are not known but in 1756 he was appointed head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. He left this post ...
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* Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire Country houses in Shropshire Military hospitals in the United Kingdom Grade I listed houses {{Shropshire-struct-stub