Now a farmhouse, although once the centre of an estate that had been built up by the Griffiths family from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Benthall was built by Thomas Griffiths (d. 1660) and his son Henry (1611-c. 1678), both of whose initials are to be seen on a chimney stack with the date 1660. It is a brick house, with sandstone base plinth, originally of L-shape, with three stories divided by string courses at the floor levels. The main entrance was formerly on the south-east side, but a new doorway was created in the west wall in the early years of the eighteenth century when an additional wing was added in the same style as the earlier build. This contained a new dining room with bolection moulded oak panelling added for Henry Biggs (1673–1706), whose father and namesake had succeeded to Benthall. Henry Biggs was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1703, his status perhaps accounting for the alterations. His surviving daughter, Sarah, married George Smythe of Nibley, Gloucestershire, in 1735, and Smythe eventually succeeded to Benthall. The house still contains its heavy late seventeenth-century oak newel staircase, and in 1924 it was noted that one bedroom in the earlier part of the building was ‘lined with tapestry, but this has almost perished with age, and is now papered over’.

The Smythes’ son Nicholas married Anna Maria, the daughter of Sir Charlton Leighton and his first wife Anna Maria Mytton, and so came to be seated at Condover Hall (q.v.). He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1772 and, two years later, sold Benthall to John Ashby, the owner of Shrewsbury’s Lion Hotel. Ashby sold a part of the Benthall estate in the following year, 1775, and then sold the remaining section – including the house – to the Severne family of Wallop (q.v.) in 1788.