Lleweni Hall

Although there had been some sort of residence on the site since 720, the family was present in the Vale of Clwyd from at least 1289 and definitely established at Lleweni Hall by 1334.

The present remaining structures of Lleweni Hall were first erected under the direction of Sir John Salusbury who had been granted a position at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1578.

Part of the 1810 notice of the sale of the estate runs as follows: "The very extensive and valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES comprising the noble Mansion of Lleweny Hall, which contains ample accommodation for a family of the first distinction, together with a new erected and very commodious bleach works, water corn-mill, and iron forge, all well supplied with water, a public-house, and several improvable farms: the whole containing near 4000 acres of extraordinary rich meadow, pasture, arable, and wood land, in a high state of cultivation, and lying nearly in a ring fence.

"[1]The new owner, William Hughes, who had made his fortune in copper mining, tore down part of Lleweni to build Kinmel Hall, which he did not live to see completed.

Kinmel Hall, which was finally built in 1871 by descendants of Hughes, closely mimics the façade of Lleweni.