In 1467 Master of the Order Johann von Mengede granted Lehtse to Hans von Lechtes, after whom it is named. After the Great Northern War it belonged to the Derfeldens and the Rosens, and in the 1800s to the Hoyningen-Huenes. A glassworks opened on the estate in 1780. The one-story stone house was probably built in the early 1800s. Late in the century it was remodeled in Neo-Gothic style, gaining stepped gables, pointed-arch windows and a five-story tower with a crenellated parapet.