Cound Hall

It is a large vernacular Baroque house, with a basement and two storeys of tall slender windows topped by a half-storey, built of red brick with stone dressings.

Cound Hall is a prime example of the rendering of the English Baroque manner in a deeply countrified setting in the Welsh Marches, showing some reflection of the work of Francis Smith of Warwick.

The house is made notable for its giant order of stop-fluted Corinthian pilasters with richly carved capitals, which Howard Colvin found "ambitious but inept" and suggested that the inspiration was the King William block at Greenwich Hospital,[2] designed by Christopher Wren.

The hall then stood empty and derelict for 15 years, until the current owners (the Waller family) bought the house as a virtual wreck in 1996 with the intention of restoring it.

In January 2015, a painting of a tabby cat, once owned by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (circa 1673), was stolen from the home's grounds.