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Maplewell Hall, Newton Linford

Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House

There are no visible remains

Name	Maplewell Hall, Newton Linford
Alternative Names	The Nunnery
Historic Country	Leicestershire
Modern Authority	Leicestershire
1974 Authority	Leicestershire
Civil Parish	Woodhouse

VCH records this site as a 'moated inclosure with stronger defensive works.'

Banks at Maplewell Hall. (VCH)

The present Maplewell Hall, now a boarding school, consists of the 1865 building added as a S. block to the older farmhouse. The farmhouse itself appears not earlier than the mid C18 and has been considerably restored. Unsuccessful attempts have been made recently to ascertain the site of the original house and a perambulation of the area revealed no trace of this or of a moat. The slopes shown SE of the house are ornamental and contemporary with the 1865 building, but on the stream, at SK 5212 1295, is a walled pond bounded on the N. and E. by banks possibly the earthworks referred to. (PastScape–Field Investigators Comments-F1 FRH 23-NOV-60)

Gatehouse Comments

Farnham writes that the modern Maplewell Hall is 'on a different site altogether' from the moated medieval house which could 'still be traced near the brook'. This was commonly called "the Nunnery". Nothing on modern or 1st edn OS map suggests the location of this moat. This, in itself, suggests the moat was not significant and one wonders what the VCH author was thinking and on what authority he considered this a 'stronger defensive work'.Map reference for modern Maplewell Hall.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

919976

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLE1140&resourceID=1021

OS Map Grid Reference	SK522132
Latitude	52.7138710021973
Longitude	-1.22740995883942
Eastings	452200
Northings	313200