Lockington Hall is a 17th-century country house, much improved and extended in later centuries, situated at Main Street, Hemington,
Lockington, Leicestershire
Lockington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lockington-Hemington, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. The village is close to the Derbyshire border.
Although there is ...
, and now converted to use as offices. It is a
Grade II listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
The two manors of Lockington, viz Nether Hall and Over Hall were anciently held by the Abbot and Convent of Leicester. Both were sold after the
Dissolution of the Monasteries to the Bainbrigge family. The house was built in about 1688 on the site of the former Nether Hall. The Bainbrigge line expired in about 1797 and the estate passed to Rev Phillip Story who remodelled the house, adding a second storey, and a
Tuscan colonnade to the seven bayed east front.
In 1872 the property was sold by
John Bainbrigge Story (
High Sheriff of Leicestershire
This is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Leicestershire, United Kingdom. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most ...
1842) to Nathaniel Charles Curzon of
Breedon Hall ( a descendant of the brother of Sir John Curzon, first of the
Curzon Baronets of
Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house, and seat of the :Curzon family, Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby. The medieval village of Kedleston was moved in 1759 by Nathanie ...
. Curzon greatly extended the house, adding two service wings and a
porte-cochere to the five bayed north entrance front.
Frances Curzon Newton of Mickleover Manor inherited the estate early in the 20th century and changed his name to Francis Curzon Curzon.
The house was converted for use as offices in 1973.
References
* ''History of the County of Derby'' Pt 2 (1829) Stephen Glover p554
* Curzon family records, Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office ref DE1536
Photograph by Heritage Gateway Heritage Gateway; description of listed building
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Country houses in Leicestershire
Grade II listed buildings in Leicestershire
History of Leicestershire