Carlton Curlieu Hall is a privately owned 17th-century country house at Carlton Curlieu,

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. It is the home of the

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and is a

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. John Bale purchased land at Carlton Curlieu in 1549 and in 1575 his nephew and namesake acquired the Manor estate. His son, also John Bale,

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in 1624, replaced the old manor house with the present house on the same site in 1636. The house which incorporates later alterations, presents an entrance front of five bays and three storeys with basements. The central and end bays protrude forward up to second storey height; the central serving as the

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columned entrance porch. The upper storey has five

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. Following the death in or before 1654 of Sir John Bale Bt the first and only Bale baronet, the house was sold in 1664 to Sir Geoffrey Palmer Bt of

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Hall, Northamptonshire,

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in 1660. The house became the principal seat of the Palmer family following the sale of East Carlton in 1933.

References

Heritage Gateway; architectural description of listed building

'A History of the County of Leicestershire' Vol 5 (1964) pp77-81 from British History Online
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