Gaddesby Hall

Gaddesby Hall is an 18th-century brick-built house in the village of Gaddesby, Leicestershire. It was built in the late 1740s as a three-storey house with additions of 1868. It is a Grade II listed building.

It was built on the site of an earlier house called Paske Hall which was surrounded by a moat and dated back to 1390. This old hall was pulled down in 1744. Over the years the hall had several owners, including the Nedham, Ayre and Cheney families, all of whom are commemorated in the parish church. The estate was put up for sale in 1917, at which time the celebrated statue of Colonel Cheney was moved into St Luke's. In the early twentieth century it was the country house of Maurice de Forest.[1]

After suffering neglect and from its use by the American Armed Forces during the Second World War, in 1950 the wings and top storey were demolished and the house was remodelled by C. E. Ogden.[2]

References
  1. John Grigg, Lloyd George, From Peace to War, p.42
  2. Pevsner, p. 105

Sources
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)

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