Bunny Hall
Bunny Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Bunny in the borough of Rushcliffe , Nottinghamshire . The country house, barns and other outbuildings have been under monument protection since 1954 and are listed as Grade I or Grade II buildings.
history
The current country house replaced a previous building from the sixteenth century and was designed between 1710 and 1725 in the Tudor style by Sir Thomas Parkyns, 2nd baronet and local architect, and rebuilt for 12,000 pounds ; for an additional 5,000 pounds, he had a three-kilometer park wall built. Bunny Hall continued to expand extensively until the late 19th century. It is made of red brick and has an 80 foot tower. The property is on a 14.5 hectare property. It is equipped with a cinema room and a leisure area, which is equipped with a fitness room, steam and sauna rooms, a large heated indoor pool and a separate whirlpool and a wellness area. There is also a large orangery , drawing room, library, and a circular glazed dome that illuminates the hallway and stairwell.
Bunny mansion was purchased as a dowry from Richard Parkyns when he married Elizabeth Barlowe in the 1570s. It is believed that he built the original hall. Subsequent generations of the Parkyns family lived there until 1850.
Between 1826 and 1835 there was another extensive redesign of Bunny Hall by George Parkyns, 2nd Baron Rancliffe (1785-1850). In 1850 the Parkyns line went extinct and the property was bequeathed to Mrs. Burt, the housekeeper, who left it to the Levinge family. She sold the entire property, which covers four thousand hectares and extends over 5 parishes, to Sir Albert Ball, the Mayor of Nottingham , who sold it on to the Cordeux family as a speculative property. During the Second World War , the estate and hall were bought by Bertie Edwards, whose son moved into the building and renovated it.
It was bought by the Chek Whyte family of entrepreneurs in 2000 after 40 years of vacancy, and was for sale in 2009 at over £ 3 million.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bunny Hall , heritagegateway.org.uk, accessed January 29, 2019
- ↑ David Poole: BUNNY HALL. In: HOUSE AND HERITAGE. May 25, 2018, accessed February 21, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '38.5 " N , 1 ° 8' 1.3" W.