Bloxholm is a hamlet, and part of the
civil parish
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of
Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm
Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm is a civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 796, increasing to 837 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the villages of Ashby d ...
, in the
North Kesteven district of
Lincolnshire
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, England. It is situated approximately south-west from the village of
Digby
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Bloxholm Hall
Bloxholm Hall is a partially demolished early 18th-century country house of which the surviving north wing now serves as a Grade II
listed farmhouse.
It was built in 1707 for Septimus Cyprian Thornton and was acquired by the Duchess of Rutland, from whom it descended to
General Lord Robert Manners (1721–1782). It was enlarged in 1772 by the addition of a north wing by architect
Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 179 ...
. It passed to his son George Manners (1763–1828),
High Sheriff of Lincolnshire
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for 1826, who further enlarged and renovated the hall to the designs of Vulliamy, adding a stable block (now also Grade II listed). He died unmarried, leaving the estate to his great-niece Mary, who married
Robert Dundas, later Robert Nisbet-Hamilton, MP and Privy Counsellor. He died in 1887 leaving an only daughter Mary Georgiana, who predeceased him, having married Henry Olgilvy.
The Olgilvys had lived at one of their several Scottish homes and Bloxholm was sold.
The hall was abandoned in the 1940s and the older main wing demolished in 1963. The north wing is now a farmhouse.
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Villages in Lincolnshire
North Kesteven District