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*''Not to be confused with Downton Castle, Downton-on-the-Rock, Shropshire'' Downton Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house at Stanton Lacy, near Ludlow, Shropshire. It is a Grade II * listed building.〔( Heritage Gateway: architectural description of listed building )〕 The house was built about 1733 by Wredenhall Pearce, who had inherited the estate in 1731. The new house, designed by William Smith Jnr of Warwick, of three storeys and with a twelve-bay frontage carrying a balustraded parapet, boasts an unusual circular entrance hall with Ionic columns and a honeysuckle frieze.〔〔''Shropshire'' John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner (2005) p. 251〕 In 1781 Catherine Hall, daughter and heir of William Pearce Hall married Charles William Rouse-Boughton MP (see Boughton Baronets).〔National Archives. Rouse-Boughton family and estate papers. Ref 6683〕 Improvements to the house in 1824 included a new entrance front, designed by architect Edward Haycock, with an Doric style portico.〔 Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton was resident in 1881 with his family and nine domestic servants.〔Public Record Office. 1881 Census. ref RG11/2613/37/5〕 Following the death of the last Baronet in 1963 his daughter Miss MF Rouse-Boughton continued to live at the Hall.〔''A Guide to Shropshire'' Michael Raven (2005)〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Downton Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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