Shipton Hall ⁶⁶⁶⁵

Shipton Hall, a stone, E-plan house, was built around 1549 by Richard Lutwyche. It is approached from the east by a terraced garden forecourt. Behind the Hall is the site of a bowling green. Off the east front of the Hall is a picturesque group of stone estate buildings, including a stables, dovecote, and barn.

By the early 19th century there were park-like grounds around and especially behind the Hall, and there was apparently a short avenue running towards it from the south-west. The gardens around the hall were in the Picturesque style, with firs and rhododendrons.

The surrounds of Shipton

Hall were surveyed by the Royal Commission, who recorded a sunken lawn

immediately west of the Hall and, further west, a complex of ponds and water

management channels. These are

overlooked by the remains of terraces, of unknown date. The survey also includes deserted settlement remains opposite the estate yard, which were cleared in the later 18th century to improve the view from the hall.