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Houses featured in the Gazeteer:-
LEICESTERSHIRE
Ashby Folville Manor Baggrave Hall Barkby Hall Beaumanor Park Belgrave Hall Belvoir Castle Braunstone Hall Brooksby Hall Carlton Curlieu Hall Cold Overton Hall Coleorton Hall Donington Hall Gaddesby Hall Goadby Marwood Hall Grace Dieu Manor Husbands Bosworth Hall Ingarsby Old Hall Keythorpe Hall Langton Hall Launde Abbey Lockington Hall Lowesby Hall Market Bosworth Hall Nevill Holt Hall Noseley Hall (Nosely Hall) Osbaston Hall Peatling Parva Hall Prestwold Hall Quenby Hall Quorn Hall Quorn House Rothley Hall Scraptoft Hall Shenton Hall Skeffington Hall Stanford Hall Stapleford Park Staunton Harold Hall Stretton Hall Swithland Hall Whatton House Wistow Hall Withcote Hall
RUTLAND
Burley-on-the-Hill Clipsham Hall Exton Hall Hambleton Hall Hambleton Old Hall Langham Old Hall Lyndon Hall North Luffenham Hall South Luffenham Hall Tolethorpe Hall
Example Gazeteer Entry
Noseley Hall (or in some old spellings, Nosely Hall)
Situated in attractive wooded country south-east of Leicester, the Hall and its private chapel remain, the village which stood to the north-west of the present park having been depopulated in the sixteenth century. Thomas Hesilrige acquired the estate through marriage at the end of the fourteenth century. The family retained the surname until 1818, when Sir Arthur Grey Hesilrige, the eleventh baronet, changed it to Hazlerigg and so it has remained. There was a medieval manor house here but no trace of it survives. The present house was completely rebuilt in the early eighteenth century by Sir Robert Hesilrige who died in 1721 and rainwater heads dated 1723 suggest the building was completed after his death by his widow Dorothy. Noseley Hall, the home of Lord Hazlerigg, is a large two-storey brick building, with attics, a balustraded parapet and hipped slate roofs. However, most of it was cement-rendered in the late nineteenth century, though the original brick can be seen at the back of the house. The principal front, facing south, is eleven bays wide with the three central bays set forward, containing a central doorcase. On either side are bays with balustrading above. This central section is occupied by the saloon which Pevsner describes “as a wonderful surprise”, having fine Baroque decoration and Rococo motifs, dating from the 1730s and 1740s. These include heavy Corinthian pilasters which support a large cornice above which are shorter pilasters topped by a shell motif. Another room of considerable interest is the former dining room with its Rococo decoration. The chapel to the house dates mainly from the thirteenth century. In the Autumn of 1998 the great majority of the contents of the house were sold, and the house itself is likely to be converted into a conference centre, in which the present Lord Hazlerigg will continue to live.
(Details of the parkland for Noseley Hall, including a map from 1743, are included in the companion volume, The Historic Parks and Gardens of Leicestershire and Rutland.
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