Longner Hall

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Overview

Designed in 1803 by John Nash for the Burton family, whose ancestors still reside there, this attractive red sandstone Tudor gothic-style hall is laid out in an unusual L-shaped design. Longner Hall is renowned for its glorious floor-to-ceiling length stained glass windows and the plaster fan vaulting inside the main reception rooms. Having lived at Longner since the 14th century, the Burton family has filled the house with treasures and artefacts collected from medieval times onwards. The grounds were landscaped by Humphrey Repton, who was regarded as the last great English landscape designer of the 18th century and the natural successor to ‘Capability’ Brown. Repton produced one of his famous ‘Red Books’ (so called because they were bound in red morocco leather) of his garden designs for Longner Hall, complete with working plans and watercolours.

Location

UFFINGTON, SY4 4TG

About the area

Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman.

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