Branston Hall
Branston Hall | |
Lincolnshire | |
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Branston Hall | |
Location | |
Location: | 53.19417 -0.4825 |
Village: | Branston |
History | |
Information |
Branston Hall is a country house in the village of Branston, Lincolnshire. The hall is a Grade II listed building,[1] and is set in 88 acres of wooded parkland and lakes.
Designed by John Macvicar Anderson in 1885, the house was built in Elizabethan Revival style.[1][2]
Originally commissioned as the family seat of the Melville family, the house became an RAF hospital during the Second World War, and then a sanatorium run by Lindsey County Council.[3][2][4]
The house lay derelict in the 1970s but in the late 1980s it underwent restoration and conversion into a retirement, and it is now restored and converted into a hotel.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1317238: Branston Hall and Outbuildings
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The History of Branston Hall and The Ghost of Branston Hall". Rod Collins. 20 November 2010. http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/branston-hall-history-the-ghost-of-branston-hall. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ↑ "Branston, Branston Hall Hospital c.1965". Francis Frith. http://www.francisfrith.com/branston,leicestershire/photos/branston-hall-hospital-c1965_b512007/#utmcsr=geograph.org.uk&utmcmd=referral&utmccn=geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, p.103