Shardlow Hall is a 17th-century former country house at

Shardlow Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England about southeast of Derby and southwest of Nottingham. Part of the civil parish of Shardlow and Great Wilne, and the district of South Derbyshire, it is also very close to the border with Leicestersh ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

now in use as commercial offices. It is a Grade II* listed building which is officially listed on the Buildings at Risk Register. The house was built in 1684 for Leonard Fosbrooke, originally to an H-plan design with two storeys with parapets and a six-bay entrance front. A series of six Leonard Fosbrookes succeeded to the estate, two of whom served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' John Burke (1835) Fosbrooke of Shardlow p627 Google Books A new seven-bayed west garden front was constructed in 1726, and in the late 18th century the entrance front was extended by the creation of single-storey wings, each terminating in a pedimented two-storey pavilion. The Fosbrookes moved to Ravenstone Hall and in 1826 sold the house to James Sutton of Shardlow, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1842. The house ceased use as a residence and was occupied by Shardlow Hall School from 1911 to 1933. More recently it has been used as commercial offices.

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{{coord, 52.870, -1.350, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire Structures on the Heritage at Risk register History of Derbyshire 1684 establishments in England

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