Stoke Hall is a
Grade II* listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
30-room
Georgian Palladian
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
mansion near the village of
Grindleford
Grindleford is a village and civil parish in the county of Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 909. It lies at an altitude of in the valley of the River Derwent in t ...
, Derbyshire, England,
whose restoration featured on the BBC series ''
Restoration Home''
and the follow-up ''Restoration Home - One Year On''.
History
Stoke was listed in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
. The first known occupant was Gerbert de Stoke, in 1204.
Stoke was held by the Greys of Codnor and sold in the 1460s to the Barlows of Barlow Hall.
In the 17th-century the estate was owned by
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being ...
.
Early in the next century, it passed to the Rev
John Simpson, who commissioned the current building following his acquisition of the estate upon his marriage to the granddaughter of
Admiral Benbow.
The house was designed by
James Paine and built by William Booth.
Both men also worked at nearby
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the House of Cavendish, Cavendish family si ...
.
It was later described by
Nicholas Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...
as ‘quite stately'.
In about 1850 Simpson's descendant
Henry Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford sold the estate to the Hunter family of Greystones.
who lived there until at least the late 1930s.
The Hall was later occupied by the industrialist Emile Viner, until 1950/1, and was then purchased by Hedley and Ida Abson, becoming a family home. After Hedley and Ida died, the Hall was sold in 1972,
and subsequently used as a hotel and restaurant.
It was sold at auction to Richard Jowitt in 1982.
After an incomplete 25-year restoration, Jowitt died, and the house was offered for sale in 2008, with a guide price of £2.75 million,
but not sold until 2009 for £2.5 million
to a local couple, Steve and Natalie Drury, who have spent a further £1.5 million completing the restoration.
Their restoration was shown by the BBC in 2011
and 2012.
The main three-storey Georgian house includes the reception hall, five reception rooms, kitchen, breakfast room, master suite, five bedrooms, two bathrooms and a staff apartment.
There is also an older north wing.
The total floorspace is .
The drawing room has a chimneypiece by
Grinling Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London church ...
.
The building was Grade II* listed on 8 August 1985.
The
River Derwent marks the estate's eastern boundary.
See also
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*
Listed buildings in Grindleford
References
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Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire