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Lot Essay
Downing Hall, Whitford, Holywell, Flintshire was the seat of the Pennant family. The house, built in 1627, was altered by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) and by his successors, especially by his son David, who added the library wing, and circa 1858 by T. H. Wyatt, architect, for Lord and Lady Feilding (later Earl and Countess of Denbigh). Lady Feilding was Thomas Pennant's great-grand-daughter. Downing Hall was demolished in 1953 following a major fire thirty years earlier.
It was Lord Fielding's reluctance to pass on Downing Hall to Philip Pennant that led him to build Nantlys, also by T.H. Wyatt, in the 1870s.
It was Lord Fielding's reluctance to pass on Downing Hall to Philip Pennant that led him to build Nantlys, also by T.H. Wyatt, in the 1870s.