page_title: Leighton Hall, Powys
section_title: The Park Gate and Lodges
hierarchical_section_title: Leighton Hall, Powys / Estate Buildings / The Park Gate and Lodges
caption_attribution_description: English: Leighton Hall Lodge
context_page_description: Leighton Hall is an estate located to the east of Welshpool in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys, in Wales. Leighton Hall is a listed grade I property. It is located on the opposite side of the valley of the river Severn to Powis Castle. The Leighton Hall Estate is particularly notable for the Hall which was decorated and furnished by the Craces to designs by Pugin in his Houses of Parliament style, and for the Home Farm, a model farm, which was to be in the forefront of the Victorian industrialised High Farming. Leighton Hall was also the birthplace of the much disparaged hybrid Cupressocyparis leylandii hedge tree. The Hall is now in private ownership and is not accessible to the public, although it can still be viewed from the road. The Home Farm is currently under restoration.
context_section_description: It is likely that W H Gee was the architect for the Park gate and lodges. The Hall is approached from the north-west through a three arched Gothic stone gateway set back from the road.  The North or Front lodge stands on the right of the drive inside the gate arch. 
  To its south is a second lodge, Back Lodge, which is a small two-storey house in similar but plainer style to Front Lodge. A third entrance lies south of the house, with a lodge, Pine Lodge, to its west. The drive from here runs northwards to the former stables.
  On the east side of the estate, an entrance side gate connects to Church Lodge. This is a single-storey stone buildings with an attic storey and slate roof. It is executed in the Tudorbethan/Gothic style.  A small porch stands on the west side of the house and the roof is ornamented with central, twin stone stacks, an ornamental iron ridge and finials on the gables and probably dates from about 1851–52.
caption: Leighton Hall Lodge
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