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Shireoaks Hall

Shireoaks
England

Originally Shireoaks Manor or Grange belonged to Worksop Priory. In 1458 leased to Henry Ellis and his wife Dame Lucy. During the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII, Worksop Priory was taken into crown ownership. It was leased in 1546 to Robert and Hugh Thornhill for annual payment of 35shillings and 4 pence farthing. The next owners were the first of a long line of the Hewett family. The Manor was sold in 1811 to Duke of Norfolk and subsequently in 1841 to Duke of Newcastle. It is now in the ownership of Mr K Godlewski who is slowly undertaking a sympathetic restoration of the building with the help of his architect son Leo. The present building is mainly Elizabethan and is thought to have been designed by Robert Smythson (of Wollaton Hall and Hardwick Hall fame). (Information extracted from the very interesting Shireoaks and District Local History Society web-site http://www.shireoakshistory.fsnet.co.uk/sitesofhistoricalinterest.htm)

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