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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Rose Hill, Chesterfield

June 25, 2024 VickyP

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by Maxwell Craven The publication in 2019 of Chesterfield Streets and Houses by Philip Riden and Chris Leteve throws much fascinating and detailed light on the history of the built environment of Chesterfield, although is a little light on architectural history and evaluation. Yet, when it comes to the early history of Rose Hill, a […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Parkfields, Derby

May 1, 2024 VickyP

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by Maxwell Craven A notable surge in prosperity in Derby during the Napoleonic wars and afterwards, led to the building of nearly a dozen Regency villas on the fringes, in the suburbs and in the immediate area of the borough, of varying size and quality. Most were built by prosperous merchants and a few by […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – West Hallam Hall

April 2, 2024 VickyP

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No native West Hallam resident, of course, would acknowledge being resident of Ilkeston – they are fiercely independent folk – but the loss of the hall caused this unexpected expansion, and the man responsible was bullish Nottingham developer and bigwig, Alderman Sir Albert Ball (1863-1946), as with one of two other lost Derbyshire houses (not […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Beaufort House, Derby

January 2, 2024 Alistair Plant

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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

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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

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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

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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 – Brizlincote Old Hall

June 3, 2023 Alistair Plant

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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 – Nevill Old Hall, Ashford in the Water

March 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

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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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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hearthcote House, Swadlincote

February 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

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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 […]

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