Leadenham House is a

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country house in

Leadenham __NOTOC__ Leadenham is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 410. It lies north from Grantham, 14 miles (22 km) south of Lincoln and ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England. The house is constructed in '2½ storeys' of ashlar and dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate hipped roof with a 7 bay frontage to the west. North and South faces, of 4 bays, are identical. The House stands in parkland surrounded by 3,000 acres of farmland. The gateway of similar Ashlar construction is also a listed building.

History

The hall was built for William Reeve between 1790 and 1796 by Christopher Staveley of Melton Mowbray. It was extended by architect

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in 1826–29 and altered by architect

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in 1903. Blow also hung two of the reception rooms with hand-painted oriental wallpapers. It descended in the Reeve family to Lt-Col William Reeve (1906–1993) who was

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for 1957. Following the 2013 divorce of Peter Reeve and his former wife Henrietta, the estate's value was divided between the ex-spouses. This was disputed unsuccessfully by their elder son William who wished to keep the estate intact.

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