Brooksby Hall
BROOKSBY HALL, BROOKSBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075040
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Brooksby Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKSBY HALL, BROOKSBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075040
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Brooksby Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKSBY HALL, BROOKSBY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKSBY HALL, BROOKSBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hoby with Rotherby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 67100 16072
Details
HOBY WITH BROOKSBY ROAD ROTHERBY Brooksby
SK 61 NE Brooksby Hall 1/280 14.7.53 GV II*
Country house, now agricultural college. Late C16, altered early C18 and early C19. Extended and altered 1890-1 by R J and J Goodacre of Leicester. Other minor alterations by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Lord Beatty c1912. Coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings, Swithland slate roofs, stone lateral and ridge stacks with brick flues. H plan. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. 3-bay hall range between projecting wings has central part-glazed door with moulded stone surround and cornice, flanked by 12-pane sash windows with moulded eared surrounds. Square six- pane sash windows to 1st floor with moulded stone surrounds, that to centre eared, and battlemented parapet. String courses at 1st floor level and to base of parapet. West wing to left has large canted stone bay window of cl890 with 8-pane sashes, moulded stone surrounds, plain ironstone parapet with limestone coping and quoins. Pair of 12-pane sashes to 1st floor with moulded eaved surrounds. 3-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone mullion attic window to gable with hood mould; stone-coped gable with kneelers. East wing to right of 1891 copies W wing, but has no bay window, but pair of sashes similar to those of 1st floor and similar gable window. Further 2 storey and attic extension to far right of similar date has sash windows with similar surrounds, gabled dormers behind plain stone-coped parapet and ends in 1- bay cross wing with similar stone mullion window to gable. C17 west wing has two large projecting lateral stacks to left side, towards font and rear, and 2-storey gabled projection to right of centre beside stack with 2- light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom windows to ground and 1st floors - possible former stair turret. 2-storey projection to centre, probably early C19, with hipped roof and large single-storey bow with glazed garden door flanked by sash windows all with moulded stone surrounds and battlemented parapet. Sash windows to 1st floor with wood lintels. Rear elevation of hall range has 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom windows to ground and 1st floors either side of large central projecting stack. Interior: Stone cantilever staircase in W wing with plain iron balusters and ramped mahogany handrail. Hall remodelled for Lord Beatty in early C18 style with green marble bolection-moulded fireplace and painted wood surround with broken pediment to overmantel. Doorcases with pulvinated friezes and compartmented plaster ceiling. Dining room in east wing has C17 style stone fireplace and panelling, said to have been made of wood from Lord Beatty's flagship. Formerly the seat of the Villiers fiamily and birthplace in 1592 of George Villiers created Duke of Buckingham. Bought 1711 by Sir Nathan Wright. Rented for much of C19 as a hunting box. Tenants included 7th Earl of Cardigan. Sold 1911 to Rear Admiral Beatty, created Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby. Purchased by Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils 1945 for use as agricultural college. Buildings of England Leics 1984 p144-5. J R Hubbard, 'Brooksby' the story of an estate and its people, 1977.
Listing NGR: SK6710016072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, J R, Brooksby The story of an estate and its people, (1977)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 144-5
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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