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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hazelbarrow Hall, Eckington

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Allen Hill, Matlock

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – New Hall, Castleton

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Norton House, Norton

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Measham Hall

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Saint Helen’s House, Derby

July 29, 2019 VickyP

One often comes across houses – not always ancient ones – which have names carrying the suffix ‘Priory’ or similar. Very often, such houses were built on former monastic land or even adapted from monastic buildings, although it has to be admitted that sometimes the connection is spurious and the nomenclature arrived at quite vicariously. […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Chesshyre’s House, Derby

July 1, 2019 VickyP

The Chesshyre family has been amongst the elite tradesmen of Derby since the beginning of the seventeenth century, when brothers Robert and John Cheshire, sons of a Breadsall farmer, set up in business in the town. John (1613-1689) was Mayor in 1680 and left descendants in the town, as did Robert (1602-1673) who was a […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Green Hall, Belper

June 4, 2019 VickyP

The story of the Strutt family and that of modern Belper, which they more or less created, are intertwined. They built the mills and the workers’ housing (to a very high standard for the period) and over several generations endowed the town with numerous benisons, leaving the built environment the better for it; today it […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Brailsford Hall

March 26, 2019 VickyP

The manorial history of Brailsford is a long and distinguished one going back to the period of the Norman conquest. Then the manorial estate was held by one Elfin (as Domesday Book renders his name) or Aelfwine, clearly a man of Saxon descent. In 1086 he held not only Brailsford but also Thurvaston, Osmaston-by-Ashbourne, Culland […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Breadsall Mount

February 27, 2019 VickyP

Breadsall was one of the villages immediately surrounding Derby that so far has escaped being absorbed by the ever-expanding city below it and to the south, although a considerable amount of land on the southern edge of the parish was absorbed in 1921 and is now host to the Breadsall Hill Top estate, created through […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Little Chester Manor House, Derby

January 3, 2019 VickyP

Readers will be well aware that Little Chester is a characterful Derby suburb which overlies the remains of the Roman small town of Derventio. What some may not know is that within its modest compass stands Derby’s oldest domestic residence: Stone House Prebend, on Old Chester Road, itself once the via principia of the military […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Temple House, Derby

November 29, 2018 VickyP

If you go up Mill Hill Lane today, you might come away with the impression that Temple House is the house facing you end-wise as you link round towards the top of Renals Street. That, however, would be a mistake encouraged by the fact that the building in question, a brick villa of some size, […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Langley Hall, Meynell Langley

October 25, 2018 VickyP

The history of Langley, just north west of Derby on the road to Ashbourne, is complex to say the least. As a consequence, it is not without its fair share of lost houses, about one of which we have sufficient information to be able to say something about it. The manor of Langley originally consisted […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Romeley Hall, Clowne

September 25, 2018 VickyP

At Romeley, one gets two lost houses for the price of one. The early history of Romeley (or Romiley) in the extreme SW of the parish of Clowne, but often erroneously listed under Barlborough, is obscure to say the least, but the first we hear of a capatial mansion there is in 1455 when one […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Devonshire House, Derby

September 4, 2018 VickyP

A great friend who is the senior caseworker for the Georgian Group, was asked by the City Council to comment on an application to convert the upper floors of 35, Cornmarket into flats. Our own Conservation Area Advisory committee, which until recently I chaired, had already questioned the applicant’s desire to remove the surviving staircase […]