Teversal Manor is a small Grade II listed 17th-century country house in Teversal, Nottinghamshire, some 5 km (3 miles) west of Mansfield.
The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It is built in two storeys with attics with an irregular 7 bay frontage. [1]
Prior to 1562 Roger Greenhalgh owned Teversal Manor. The manor was inherited in that year by Greenhalgh's son-in-law Francis Molyneux. [2] He was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1582–83. His grandson Sir John Molyneux, 1st Baronet, was High Sheriff for 1609 and created a baronet in 1611. The Molyneux baronets and families remained in the village for about 150 years. [3]
The estate descended to Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet (1738-1812), who was a courtier who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. On his death, unmarried, his estates at Teversal and Wellow passed to his nephew Henry Howard, who adopted the surname Molyneux-Howard and died in 1824. [4]
Teversal passed to his daughter Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard, who married in 1830 John George, the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He died young in 1849, but his widow lived until 1876. The house was remodelled by MacVicar Anderson in a neo-Jacobean style for the Hon. Henrietta Molyneux. The Carnarvons retained possession of the house until the death of Henry, the 4th Earl's wife, Elizabeth Catherine (née Howard), in 1929. The 4th Earl was a British cabinet minister and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His wife, Elizabeth Catherine Howard, otherwise known as Elsie, used the Manor at Teversal for refugees. [5] Their son George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and his wife Almina were associated with Howard Carter and funded the excavations of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. [6] Aubrey Herbert, the half Brother of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, celebrated his coming of age at Teversal Manor. [3]
In 2012 the current owners, John and Janet Marples, after running a café and gift shop at the house for some time, announced their intention to seek planning permission to convert the house into 16 individual dwellings. [7]
The Manor was visited by Virginia Woolf in 1904, [8] and is believed to be the basis of the fictional Wragby Hall in D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover . [9]
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Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon,, known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the Colonies and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
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Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of around 49,023, it is the largest town in the district of Ashfield. It is situated four miles west of Mansfield, two miles from the Derbyshire border and twelve miles north of Nottingham. There are villages which make up Sutton in Ashfield these are Teversal, Skegby, Stanton Hill and Huthwaite.
Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert, of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal, in Nottinghamshire, was a British soldier, diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence. He was twice offered the throne of Albania. From 1911 until his death he was a Conservative Member of Parliament. His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), the Egyptologist who famously discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, who predeceased him by five months, by legend due to the "curse of the pharaohs". He suffered during most of his life from poor eyesight and was almost blind by his early 40s.
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Colonel Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon DL, FSA, styled The Honourable Henry Herbert from 1780 to 1793 and Lord Porchester from 1793 to 1811, was a British peer, nobleman, and Whig politician.
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Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard, known as Henry Howard until 1812, and as Henry Molyneux-Howard until 1817, was a British gentleman who served as Deputy Earl Marshal in the latter part of the reign of George III and early in the reign of George IV. On the inheritance of the Dukedom of Norfolk in 1815 by his elder brother Bernard, Henry Molyneux-Howard in 1817 was granted the courtesy title "Lord", the style of a younger son of a duke.
Henry Howard was a British Member of Parliament.
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Sir John Molyneux of Teversal, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
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