Halghton Hall is a house in the hamlet of Halghton in Wrexham County Borough, North Wales. Designed in around 1662 in a Jacobean style, it is a Grade I listed building. Various former estate buildings have their own historic listings.

Halghton Hall
a late-18th century engraving - the hall has been little altered since
TypeHouse
LocationHalghton, Wrexham County Borough
Coordinates52°58′34″N 2°52′18″W / 52.976°N 2.8717°W / 52.976; -2.8717
Built1662, with earlier origins
Architectural style(s)Jacobean
OwnerPrivately owned
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameHalghton Hall
Designated17 March 1953
Reference no.1641
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameMulti-purpose farm building at Halghton Lodge
Designated15 November 2005
Reference no.86945
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameHalghton Lodge Farmhouse
Designated15 November 2005
Reference no.86939
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameHalghton Forge
Designated15 November 2005
Reference no.86938
Official nameHalghton Lodge Moated Site
Designated3 July 1987
Reference no.FL174
Halghton Hall is located in Wrexham
Halghton Hall
Location of Halghton Hall in Wrexham

History

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Evidence of human habitation at Halghton dates from the Middle Ages. To the north of the present hall is the site of a Medieval moated manor house, although nothing but the platform and the moat now remain.[1] Halghton Hall dates from 1662 and is thought to have been built by a cadet branch of the Hanmer family of Hanmer, Flintshire. By the 18th century the hall had descended to the status of a farmhouse, and formed part of the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Philip Lloyd Fletcher, commander of the Royal Flint Rifles. It was later sold to the Kenyon family, local landowners.[2]

The hall was sold again in the mid-20th century and remains privately owned, the centre of an agricultural estate. It is not open to the public.[3]

Architecture and description

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Halghton was intended to be built to a traditional h-plan, with a central block and two cross wings. The eastern section does not now exist, and it is likely that it was never built. Edward Hubbard, in his Clwyd volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, suggests that it was not,[4] and Cadw also thinks this probable, although it raises the possibility that the eastern section was constructed and later removed.[a][2] The house is built of brick with ashlar dressings.[4] Hubbard describes the "very large" off-set porch as "crudely Jacobean in style".[4] A partial moat remains.[5]

Halghton is a Grade I listed building.[2] A lodge, a farm building and a forge are all listed at Grade II.[6][7][8] The site of the moated Medieval manor is a Scheduled monument.[1]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ At the time of the Cadw listing in 1953, the then owners reported finding evidence of the foundations of an eastern wing.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Cadw. "Halghton Lodge Moated Site (Grade SM) (FL174)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Cadw. "Halghton Hall (Grade I) (1641)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Halghton Hall". Business Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Hubbard 2003, p. 358.
  5. ^ "Halghton Hall (35862)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  6. ^ Cadw. "Multi-purpose farm building at Halghton Lodge (Grade II) (86945)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  7. ^ Cadw. "Halghton Lodge Farmhouse (Grade II) (86939)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  8. ^ Cadw. "Halghton Forge (Grade II) (86938)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 1 September 2024.

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