Haughton Hall

The present house was built in 1718 by Sir Humphrey Briggs, 4th Baronet, MP for Wenlock, originally in red brick, with two storeys and attics and a seven bay frontage.

[1] After 1767 the estate was divided between among daughters and the Hall passed to George Townsend Brooke, son of Elizabeth Briggs.

[2] He improved and enlarged the house between 1820–30; the external walls were stuccoed and two two-storey flanking wings were added.

[1] Following the death of Major William John Brooke (born 1875), of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (he was killed during the Battle of Estaires on 9 April 1918 whilst attached to the Middlesex Regiment in the First World War),[3] the property passed to a nephew and was thereafter let out for various uses, including briefly a school.

A brick and stone pillar marks his grave to the west of the old walled garden.