A country house with a long memory

Tucked between rolling Shropshire fields and the River Severn, Coton Hall is quiet, elegant, and full of stories. The present house wears a refined late-Georgian look with later Victorian additions, yet the estate’s roots run far deeper. Across lawns and old brick walls you’ll find traces of families layered over centuries—most famously the Lees, whose name echoes from Shropshire to early colonial America.

The Lee Family

For generations, Coton Hall was the seat of the Lee family, prominent Shropshire landowners with a talent for being where history happens. The Lee connection travelled far—across the Atlantic in the 1600s with Richard Lee, an early Virginian who helped establish one of America’s notable dynasties. Back at Coton Hall, the family shaped the estate we know today: a handsome house framed by parkland, gardens and specimen trees, made for grand arrivals and long summer evenings.

“Coton Hall belongs to that rare breed of English houses that feel composed, not constructed—an estate arranged like a piece of music.”

A chapel, steeped in history

Medieval in origin and once a place of worship for Saxon Kings, Coton Hall’s ruined chapel was later modified with 18th-century Gothic features, including an arched east window and a quatrefoil. The roof collapsed in the 19th century, and the Lee monuments were relocated for protection. The chapel remains as a stone ruin with visible window tracery. It is the most recognisable historic feature of Coton Hall.