Site of lost hall and woods on market for £750,000

THE site of one of the great lost halls of Wales has few traces of its former grandeur.

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Downing Hall was built in 1627 by the influential Pennant family - one of the country's wealthiest and most influential dynasties.

As it passed down the generations, each added to the Flintshire property - including a grand stable block, walled garden and library wing. It later became a sporting retreat but was placed up for sale in 1920.