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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Chesshyre’s House, Derby

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Green Hall, Belper

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Brailsford Hall

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Breadsall Mount

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Little Chester Manor House, Derby

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Mackworth Castle

June 5, 2018 VickyP

The stone shell of the gatehouse to site of the ancient seat of the Mackworth family is one of the most memorable sites in the County. Lying only a few hundred yards from the City boundary of Derby, it invariably excites interest from those who see it for the first time, and it has been […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Glossop Hall

May 1, 2018 VickyP

The Glossop Hall that was demolished in 1958-59 was an unlovely house of titanic proportions, once set in a spectacular wooded park. Unlovely it may have been, but it had an interesting history and was itself at least the third house on the site, although it probably included portions of the fabric of at least […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Spondon House

April 3, 2018 VickyP

Spondon House was a fine Georgian mansion, in reality a secondary seat on the Locko estate of the Drury Lowes. Yet it was not without presence, and its history not without interest. All accounts of the house, the building records for which are absent from the Drury-Lowe archive at the University of Nottingham Library, aver […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Willesley Hall, Ashby

February 27, 2018 VickyP

Until the local government reforms of 1888-1889 Derbyshire did not sit inside a single boundary; it has detached ‘islands’, mainly to its south, created in the Saxon period by assarting – clearing of woodland by men of Derbyshire in un-adopted regions. The settlements so created, once the County system had become established in the mid-10th […]

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Derbyshires Lost Houses – Meynell’s House, Derby

February 1, 2018 VickyP

Francis Meynell (1698-1768) was a member of what was, in the early eighteenth century, a younger branch of the great Derbyshire house of Meynell, recorded in the county as of knightly status from c. 1100. His father had an estate at Anslow in Staffordshire and property elsewhere in that county, but also set up as […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stuffynwood Hall

January 4, 2018 VickyP

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One of my oldest friends is a great enthusiast for huge spiky Gothic Victorian country houses. He thinks Samuel Sander Teulon (‘the good ship Teulon’ as he always calls him) a genius who far outshines Wren or Adam and considers Damien Hurst deserving almost of deification for buying and restoring vast, inchoate and sprawling […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Oak Hurst, Alderwasley

December 10, 2017 VickyP

As one travels north on the A6 one of the less uplifting sights in an area of stunning beauty is the wire works, covering the valley floor not many hundreds of yards south of the bridge by the former Derwent Inn, now a tea-room. Should you be caught in slow traffic – fairly likely at […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The Devonshire Hospital

October 26, 2017 VickyP

Someone mentioned to me the other day that there were many other lost houses of historic and architectural importance apart from country mansions and town gentry houses and why didn’t I write about something just slightly different every now and again? Well, often the problem is that a paucity of images prevents one from doing […]

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Derbyshire’s Lost Houses – Darwin’s House

September 27, 2017 VickyP

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Full Street in Derby was known as the most fashionable place in Derby to live, the trend having been set by the construction (and serial enlargement) of Exeter House at the south end (see Country Images February 2016 or check-out on line). With the sale from 1768 of Nuns’ […]

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Walton Old Hall – Lost Houses of Derbyshire

August 29, 2017 VickyP

Walton-on-Trent always strikes me as a pleasant place, and sufficiently off the beaten track to have survived into the 21st century rather well. It is also known for its clockmakers, too, having been the home, almost right through the 18th century, of the Rea family, Thomas Rea (1719-1782) leaving a number of sons, of whom […]