Ashby Folville Manor is a late 19th-century house in
Neo-Tudor style in the village of
Ashby Folville
Ashby Folville is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gaddesby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, south west of Melton Mowbray. In 1931 the parish had a population of 123.
History
The village of 'Ashby' w ...
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1891-1893 by the architect John Ely of
Manchester after a fire.
A camp for
displaced people from Poland was established in a former US Army base in the grounds after World War II. The resettlement camp was occupied from 1948 until 1965.
From 2004 - 2016 it was the home of
Rosemary Conley.
"Conley's concert raises money for good causes" ''Leicester Mercury'', 29 Aug 2011
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Notes and references
Sources
* Pevsner, Nikolaus
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...
(1960). ''The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland'' (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)
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Country houses in Leicestershire