Papplewick Hall
Papplewick Hall is a manor house in the village of Papplewick in the English county of Nottinghamshire . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
The house was completed around 1787 for Frederick Montague , the first Baron Amwell . Presumably it is a work by William Lindley of Doncaster .
Sir Frederick never married, and after his death in 1800 the property fell to his niece, Catherine Judith Fountayne, for life . Catherine lived at Papplewick House until 1822 and did not marry either. After her death, the property passed to Richard Fountayne Wilson of Melton-on-the-Hill . He gave it away to his ten year old son, Andrew, with royal permission in 1826 .
Andrew Montague took ownership of the 711 acre property in 1840 and moved from his home in Normanton , Rutland to Papplewick Hall. He never married either, and after his death in 1895 he bequeathed the manor to his brother's youngest son, James Fountayne Montague , who was eight at the time .
James inherited the property on his 25th birthday in December 1912 and subsequently developed it into a horse breeding business. But then the First World War intervened. After the war, James was deeply in debt. In April 1919, the politician Albert Ball bought the Papplewick property for £ 136,410 (equivalent to around £ 5,598,677 in 2015). Subsequent sales split the property between the Hucknall Torkard Industrial Provident Society , which purchased 428 acres, and Sir Charles Seely , who bought 180 acres around the Forest Farm .
Today the house and land are in private hands.
Individual evidence
- ^ L. Jacks: The Great Houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families. 1881.
- ^ J. Potter Briscoe (editor): Notes on Papplewick in Edition Old Nottinghamshire . 1884.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '36.4 " N , 1 ° 11' 0.5" W.