Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire

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Kingston Hall
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2015
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Location within Nottinghamshire
General information
Location Kingston on Soar
Town or city Nottingham
CountryEngland
Coordinates 52°50′45″N1°14′56″W / 52.845958°N 1.248812°W / 52.845958; -1.248812
Construction started1842
Completed1846
Client Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
Design and construction
Architect(s) Edward Blore

Kingston Hall is a country house in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire. [1]

It was built between 1842 and 1846 to designs by the architect Edward Blore [2] for Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper. It was made a Grade II listed building in 1987. [3]

The grounds of Kingston Hall contains a Grade II listed Pavilion and a Grade II listed stable block.

In 1916 it was the birthplace of Lavinia Mary Strutt, (later Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk), daughter of Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper and his wife, Eva Strutt.

It was subdivided into separate apartments in 1977.

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References

  1. Nottinghamshire. History, directory and gazetteer of the county... White Francis. 1864
  2. The Georgian Group journal, Georgian Group. London. 2009
  3. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1242098)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 April 2015.