[2] The estate that surrounds Plaish Hall was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'pleshā'[3], - which is thought to derive from an Old English term for "shallow pool", 'plæsċ' [4].

Leighton did not demolish the entirety of the existing manor house when rebuilding it, and incorporated sections of it into Plaish Hall.

It is in red brick with blue diapering on a chamfered plinth, and has sandstone dressings, quoins, and a stone-slate roof with parapeted gables and stone copings.

[8] The folklorist and author Charlotte Sophia Burne recorded a story involving Plaish Hall in her 1883 work, 'Shropshire Folk-Lore'.

[10] It is said that William Leighton - who built Plaish Hall between 1540 and 1580 - once sentenced a builder to death as the Chief Justice of North Wales.

Pevsner did remark, however, that Plaish Hall's brickwork would have certainly appeared impressive when first built; red-brick was "at that moment, the fashionable material".