Letton Hall

Letton Hall is a Grade II listed eighteenth-century Neoclassical stately home designed by Sir John Soane for the Gurdon family between 1783 and 1789.

The house was Sir John Soane's first domestic commission, which he designed in 1783 and constructed during the following six years for Brampton Gurdon Dillingham.

Bertram Francis Gurdon succeeded to the estate in 1899, aged 25, and extended the library to create a billiards room.

It was purchased by George Eglington, who developed the estate into a successful agricultural venture, notably breeding Welsh Pigs and Polled Friesian Cattle.

In 1979 Peter Carroll bought Letton Hall and ten acres of gardens to create a conference and activity centre; Mary, his wife, died just six months after their arrival, but their project was completed.