Henley Hall, Shropshire
Henley Hall is a building of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register.
Flanking wings were added at both ends of the original linear building c. 1772 and further major extensions carried out in 1875 and 1907.
It is situated 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Ludlow town centre, just off the A4117 road to Cleobury Mortimer.
[2] The landscape park was laid out in the late 18th century and the formal gardens created by Edmund Thomas Wedgwood Wood after he bought the site in 1874. Notable features include Pulhamite rockwork, a ha-ha, an Elizabethan octagonal dovecote and a walled garden.
Under the stewardship of the present owners, the hall and estate are now made available for weddings, shooting parties and team-building activities.
His eldest son Sir Littleton Powys (1647–1732), who inherited the hall in 1671, received a knighthood from William III in 1692 on being made a Serjeant-at-law.
He was appointed a baron of the Court of Exchequer in October 1695 and remained there until he was raised to the King's Bench on 26 January 1701.
[8] When he died in 1767, Henley Hall was left to his eldest son Thomas Powys, who was made 1st Baron Lilford.
His will stated that after her death it was to go to Reverend Samuel Johnes on the condition that he changed his name to Knight.
He lived there intermittently with his family for some years; then in about 1835 he rented it to his brother-in-law Sir Charles Cuyler.
[13] He died the following year in 1853, and his son John Knight (1803–1872) became the owner of Henley Hall.
When he died in 1872, his executors sold the hall in 1874 to Edmund Thomas Wedgwood Wood.
[14] Edmund Thomas Wedgwood Wood (1822–1886) made extensive renovations and many fine additions to the hall, including the east and west wings, the formal gardens with the beautiful stone-balustraded stone steps and the very fine double-arched stone bridge over the River Ledwyche.
He set up an earthenware manufacturing company called Woodland Pottery in Tunstall with his brother[16] and became quite wealthy.
His first wife died in 1948, and he then married in 1949 the widow of Lieutenant General Herbert William Lumsden (née Alice Mary Roddick (1896–1990)).
