Halston Hall

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Le château en bref

Halston Hall is a country house in north-west Shropshire, set in a park south of the Ellesmere road, in the parish of Whittington, a few kilometres from Oswestry and the Welsh border. The estate, known in the Middle Ages as “Holy Stone”, belonged to the Knights Hospitaller, who established a preceptory there in the second half of the 12th century. After the dissolution of the religious orders, the lands passed to the Mytton family, first on lease in 1539 and then outright in the 1560s. The present house, in red brick with stone dressings, was built around 1690; in the 1760s the Scottish architect Robert Mylne modernised it for John Mytton, giving it one of the most remarkable Georgian interiors in the county. The most famous member of the line, John “Mad Jack” Mytton, born here in 1796, squandered the family fortune; the estate was broken up and sold in 1847. Listed Grade I since 1952, the house is accompanied by a timber-framed private chapel, also Grade I, as well as protected stables and an ice house. Still privately owned and lived in, it now hosts corporate meetings, private receptions, filming and clay shooting days.