Shropshire Star

Chance to rent Shropshire home in Georgian residence linked to notorious highwayman

Fancy living in the former servants’ quarters of a prominent 18th century country residence?

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The Old Laundry

The Old Laundry at the imposing Hardwick Hall, near Ellesmere, in the North Shropshire Lakeland, has links to a famous family and notorious 15th century Shropshire highwayman, Wild Humphrey Kynaston.

And it is now available to let for £3,250 per calendar month through estate agent Halls.

Hardwick Hall is a grand, early Georgian house with Grade II status, built on a fresh site in 1720 by John Kynaston, who bought the estate in 1693. A descendant of the Kynaston family still lives in the Hall.

Imposing staircase

Wild Humphrey was born at the original Hall on the estate in around 1468.