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Kilworth House is a four star country house hotel, located west of
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When John Entwistle died in 1945 the house and his entire estate passed to his second wife, Florence. When she died during the 1960s, the Snowdon family bought Kilworth House. During the late 1970s,
Kilworth House is a four star country house hotel, located west of North Kilworth
North Kilworth is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in south Leicestershire, England, north of South Kilworth. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 597. Largely bypassed by the A4304 road, the village con ...
, Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
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History
Thisgrade II
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listed Italianate
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country house
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was built as a family home towards the end of the nineteenth century for John Entwisle, the High Sheriff of Leicestershire.
John Entwistle was born in 1856 at Foxholes near Rochdale
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to a wealthy family involved in the Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
woollen trade. He subsequently moved to the Midlands where he became a successful local businessman and lived in North Kilworth. In 1888, aged just 32, he became High Sheriff of Leicestershire and commissioned a Mr A E Purdie to design Kilworth House which was completed in 1891.
When John Entwistle died in 1945 the house and his entire estate passed to his second wife, Florence. When she died during the 1960s, the Snowdon family bought Kilworth House. During the late 1970s, Tony Iommi
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, Black Sabbath
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guitarist, lived at the house while dating one of the Snowdon daughters. In 1999, the Snowdons sold Kilworth House to the current owners who began a project of restoration and redevelopment of the House to create a Hotel.
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