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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Walton Hall, Chesterfield

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Kirk Hallam

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hoon Hall

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Burdett’s House, Full Street, Derby

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Grangefields, Trusley

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Beaufort House, Derby

January 2, 2024 Alistair Plant

By Maxwell Craven “Some years ago, a friend who is a keen collector of local postcards, Don Gwinnett, sent me a copy of a postcard of a delightful house with Gothic windows, labelled Cowsley Fields. I loved the look of the house, and decided to try and identify it, which I may say I had […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire The Hough, Hulland

November 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven The standing remains of the moated secondary seat of the de Bradbourne family no longer exist for me to share with you, but, like Brizlincote Old Hall, the site is marked by a well-preserved moat, and moated sites are relatively rare in Derbyshire, although many more are recorded in the sources than […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Lea Hall, Tissington

November 1, 2023 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven Lea Hall is a sequestered little paradise, half lost between the villages of Tissington and Bradbourne which, as readers will probably know, lie in the White Peak, almost east-west of each other, although the road between the two villages, south of which Lea Hall lies, is something of an adventure, taking one […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Blackwall Hall

September 26, 2023 Alistair Plant

When one speaks of houses that are lost, one speaks of houses built, lived in and eventually discarded as redundant, too expensive, too damaged or too inconvenient to continue living in. With regard to the potentially spectacular house that Bess of Hardwick no less, built or intended to build at Blackwall-in-Peak, none of the above […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Morley Old Hall

July 25, 2023 Alistair Plant

For somewhere so close to Derby, and somewhere which was once on the very edge of a coal-mining area, Morley is today a remarkably sequestered spot. The village is discrete, as the archaeologists say – not nucleated, but scattered around its parish – but with a magnificent parish church, a very grand Georgian rectory and […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Brizlincote Old Hall

June 3, 2023 Alistair Plant

The present hall at Brizlincote is visible for miles around, set on its dominant hill and looking for all the world like an inverted helmet-type coal-scuttle with its legs in the air, represented, of course, by the chimneys and the giant segmental pediments which ensign the facades on all four sides. I have argued in […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Netherthorpe Old Hall

May 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

Netherthorpe Old Hall was a stone built Elizabethan small manor house situated in Netherton, one of the group of modest hamlets which surround Staveley – Barrowhill, Mastin Moor, Norbriggs, Poolsbrook and Woodthorpe. Built of coarse ashlar of thin coal measures sandstone, there were hefty quoins and at one time dressings to the doorcases, windows and […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Nevill Old Hall, Ashford in the Water

March 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

By Maxwell Craven The history of Ashford-in-the-Water is both in places obscure and also generally complex; there are unhelpful gaps in our knowledge, too. It is also one of the few places in Derbyshire once lived in by a reigning sovereign prince, Melbourne Castle excepted. In reality, we are looking at two successive manor houses […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Bretby Castle

February 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

By Maxwell Craven Like its Domesday Book twin, Newton Solney, Bretby is a total delight to visit, although much smaller and more sequestered, despite its closeness to the sprawling outer suburbs of Burton. Taking Bretby Lane out of Winshill one rises up onto the undulating higher ground south of the Trent and turns right into […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hearthcote House, Swadlincote

February 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven Hearthcote House was a deceptively ancient and complex building by the time of its demolition in 1980. At first glance, it appeared to be an eighteenth century two storey L-plan brick farmhouse, lit by sash windows both conventional and side opening (the latter usually called York sashes), under cambered heads and with […]