Thoresby Hall
Thoresby Hall is a country house in the village of Budby , about 4 km north of Ollerton in the north of the English county of Nottinghamshire . The house, built in the 19th century, was listed by English Heritage as a Grade I Historic Building and is now a hotel.
The mansion is made of rock stone with stone cladding. It has four floors and a rectangular floor plan around an inner courtyard, nine bays wide and eight bays deep.
The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum occupies part of the courtyard.
history
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull , bought the Thoresby estate in 1633, but fell in the English Civil War in 1643. His son Henry had the architect Talman build the first luxurious house there around 1670. It was rebuilt for William Pierrepont from 1685 to 1687 , presumably by Benjamin Jackson , after the Earl had received the right in 1683 to divide a park from Sherwood Forest with an enclosure. The 5th Earl was raised to Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1715 .
The property then fell to Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (1711–1773), who fought in the Battle of Culloden in 1745 . In the same year the house was destroyed by fire. Twenty years later, the architect John Carr built a new house on the same site from 1767 to 1772. Humphry Repton designed the park at the same time.
When the 2nd Duke died in 1773, he left the estate to his wife, Elizabeth Chudleigh , the former wife of the Earl of Bristol . After a trial that received much public attention, she was found guilty of bigamy and sentenced to hand over the property inherited from the Duke on her death to the Duke's nephew, Charles Medows , an officer in the Royal Navy . He took the name Pierrepont and later became the first Earl of Manvers .
Between 1868 and 1874, Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl of Manvers, commissioned the famous country house architect Anthony Salvin to demolish the only one hundred year old house and replace it with the house you can see today, which was built 500 m north of the old house. The east and south facades are 55 m long and the west facade 48 m. The impressive knight's hall with its minstrel gallery on the west wall is 19 m long and 14 m high. That finally fell to the 6th Earl, who died in 1955 without a male heir, so the title lapsed. The house stayed in the family.
In order to avoid the suspected risk of subsidence due to coal mining, the family sold the building in 1979 to the National Coal Board , which in turn put them on the open market ten years later. After the mansion passed through a few hands, Warner Leisure Hotels bought it and opened it as a hotel in 2000. The family kept the majority of the furniture collection, the rest was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in 1989 .
The 8,400 m² house designed by Salvin was given a new guest room wing before it opened as a country house hotel with 200 rooms and wellness facilities. Most of the property in Thoresby still belongs to the Pierrepont family, only a few hundred square meters on which the house stands and the gardens immediately around the house belong to the hotel. The family allows the use of some footpaths directly around the house, as well as others for which a right of way is registered.
Lady Mary Pierrepont , future wife of Edward Wortley Montagu , was born in the house.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thoresby Hall and Adjoining Outbuildings, Gate and Railings, Perlethorpe cum Budby . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- ↑ English Heritage Listing.
- ↑ Thoresby . Worksop Heritage Trail. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
Web links
- Thoresby . Worksop Heritage Trail
- Thoresby Hall and Welbeck Abbey . Nottinghamshire History.
- Thoresby . Nottinghamshire History.
- Thoresby Hall Hotel . Warner Leisure Hotels.
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '59.2 " N , 1 ° 2' 38.9" W.