Mystery over Dale-owned Eyton Hall manor house, Leominster – The Hereford Times

A “deteriorating” manor house on a Herefordshire farm can now be partly turned into the base for a local on-call firm – though the nature of their work remains unclear. The nineteenth-century, three-storey Eyton Hall, near the village of Eyton northwest of Leominster, is owned by the Dale family which also owns the Frank H Dale steelworks in the town. A planning application lodged in May last year proposed reducing its current 17 bedrooms to nine, with the freed-up space to be occupied by office and “research and development” space, plus four bunk rooms and a new on-site sewage treatment plant. RELATED NEWS : Plans for new offices at Dale family’s Eyton Hall Construction underway at new Leominster medical centre Leominster’s ‘bypass’ plans have been rethought The commercial part of the building had been designed with an unnamed local firm in mind, “has outgrown their current premises within the county”, the application says. The building, which is not heritage listed, has lain empty for the last two years, and “its condition allowed to deteriorate”, it added. What are your thoughts? You can send a letter to the editor to have your say by clicking here . Letters should not exceed
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