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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 – 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 – 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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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 […]

MC Jan STAPENHILL HALL FROM KITCHEN GDN c 1905

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stapenhill Hall

December 30, 2022 Alistair Plant

By Maxwell Craven Derbyshire lost more parishes to Staffordshire than it gained under the local government reforms of 1887 and thereafter: Clifton Campville, Croxall, Edingale, Winshill and Stapenhill among them. The desire of the Borough Burton-upon-Trent to increase rating revenue, for instance, added to a sort of municipal tidy mindedness, resulting in the transfer in […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The New Inn Derby

October 25, 2022 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven I decided to take a break from country houses this month and mention a licensed house – not that I have run out of the former, but I felt a building as substantial as this merited inclusion, especially as it had a notable place in the history of local coaching and for […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Kedleston Hall by Maxwell Craven

September 29, 2022 Alistair Plant

No-one knows what the ancient hall at Kedleston looked like, except that it was built before 1198 by one the earlier Curzons, which family had inherited the estate by 1100 probably through marriage from the Domesday Book holder, Wulfbert, who held it from Henry de Ferrers. We do know, however, that a new house had […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The New Hall Buxton by Maxwell Craven

July 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

From considerable prominence during the Roman period as Aquae Arnemetiae, Buxton drops from record almost completely (avoiding an entry in Domesday Book) until it re-surfaces as Bawkestanes in a document of 1108. Yet the hot springs and associated bathing facilities may well have survived and in use, if only informally, throughout the 600 or so […]