Downton Hall

Downton Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house at Stanton Lacy, near Ludlow, Shropshire.

The new house, designed by William Smith Jr. of Warwick, of three storeys and with a twelve-bay frontage carrying a balustraded parapet, boasts an unusual circular entrance hall with Ionic columns and a honeysuckle frieze.

[3] Improvements to the house in 1824 included a new entrance front, designed by architect Edward Haycock, with a Doric style portico.

[2] Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton was resident in 1881 with his family and nine domestic servants.

[4] Following the death of the last Baronet in 1963 his daughter Miss MF Rouse-Boughton continued to live at the Hall.