The Marston Hall Estate Derbyshire The Marston Hall Estate Marston on Dove, Derbyshire Approximate distances • Derby 10 miles • Ashbourne 14 miles • East Midlands Airport 18 miles • Nottingham 26 miles • Leicester 35 miles • Birmingham 39 miles An attractive South Derbyshire Estate A handsome Grade II Listed Hall • Flexible accommodation of about 7,800 sq ft • 4 reception rooms • 7 bedrooms • self- contained suite Mature gardens and grounds An extensive range of traditional outbuildings and farm buildings with significant potential and set around a number of courtyards. The Grange - a substantial farmhouse together with traditional and modern farm buildings 6 Estate cottages Pasture and arable land, woodland, river frontage, cricket ground Extending in all to about 525.45 acres (212.24 ha) For sale by private treaty as a whole or in up to 13 lots Ashby-de-la-Zouch 01530 410840 fishergerman.co.uk Situation The Marston Hall Estate and are all within easy reach. Derby Aero Club at Egginton provides Cavendish and his heirs by grant of King Henry VIII; in 1919 the The Marston Hall Estate forms a substantial part of the Parish of Summary of Lots opportunities for private air travel. Spurrier family by purchase from the Duke of Devonshire. The Marston on Dove in South Derbyshire. The parish is nine miles Spurrier family first settled in Marston early in the 17th century, south west of Derby and two miles south east of the village of The sale of this attractive estate presents a rare opportunity. The area offers a wide range of highly regarded private George Spurrier being mentioned as churchwarden in 1628. Tutbury. Within the Parish, the Church of St Mary dates from Marston Hall is an impressive property with an extensive range of and state schools including Derby Grammar, The John Port What is now the Hall was first built around 1740 and parts of the 13th Century and houses the oldest bell in Derbyshire, traditional farm buildings that form three courtyards. There are Academy, Repton School, Denstone College, Foremarke Hall this first build are still within the present structure. It was then cast in Leicester in 1366. The Estate offers a rural way of life yet also some useful modern farm buildings. In addition to the Hall Preparatory School and Abbotsholme School. partially rebuilt and extended in 1837 in brick under slate roofs in an incredibly convenient location, with easily accessible there is a substantial farmhouse with its own range of traditional and in 1887 it was substantially enlarged by Henry Spurrier to fast communications links. The Estate is very well located for and modern buildings as well as six further cottages. The Estate accommodate himself and his wife and eight children together access to a number of major roads, including the A50 and A38 Marston Hall Estate History extends in all to about 524.45 acres, (212.24ha) and includes with five domestic servants. We understand that the Lordship of connecting to the M1, M6 and M42. Rail services are available some small areas woodland and frontage to the River Dove. The Marston Hall Estate lies in the ancient Manor of Marston the Manor can be transferred to the purchaser of the Estate. at Uttoxeter, with fast services from Derby to London St Pancras; Juxta Tutbury. Over the past 950 years the majority of the land The Marston Hall Estate is available as a whole or in up to 13 lots: there is a local rail service from Tutbury and Hatton train station forming the manor has only had three ownerships. First the which is 2.5 miles by car or 1.5 miles on foot. East Midlands Lot 1 - Marston Hall, buildings and land extending to about Crown by conquest in 1066: following the Reformation Sir William Airport, Manchester Airport and Birmingham International Airport 213.12 acres Lot 2 - The Grange Lot 3 - Land extending to about 90.82 acres Lot 4 - Land extending to about 67.08 acres Lot 5 - Land extending to about 80.01acres Lot 6 - Land extending to about 63.48 acres Lot 7 - Land extending to about 6.03 acres Lot 8 - Church View Cottage Lot 9 - Church Cottage Lot 10 - Ivy cottage Lot 11 - 1 New Cottages Lot 12 - 2 New Cottages Lot 13 - Brookside Cottage Lot 1 – Marston Hall with about 213.12 acres (86.25 hectares) Marston Hall displays its Georgian and Victorian heritage with classic architecture of the period with ‘ashlar block’ rendered walls beneath pitched slate roofs. The elevations have fine fenestration, mainly with traditional sash windows and with Virginia creeper and climbing hydrangea giving the house a lovely mellow appearance. The accommodation Ground floor Stone steps rise to the main entrance with double oak, partly glazed doors opening to the reception hall. The impressive hall has an oak floor, moulded cornices, picture rail and an elegant open fireplace. First Floor The first floor has a very flexible layout set around several landings featuring moulded cornices, archways, picture rails, fitted bookcases and numerous useful storage areas. The principal bedrooms are all of a good size and features worthy of particular note include some charming chamber fireplaces, moulded ceiling cornices, picture rails and many with fitted wardrobes. The rear section of the first floor is designed to create a self- contained suite, ideal for nanny, guests or dependent relatives. A private access can be utilised from the rear hall and secondary staircase and the suite includes a sitting room, fully fitted kitchen, two double bedrooms, bathroom and a WC. Radiating off the reception hall are the principal reception To the rear of the reception hall is the staircase hall featuring rooms. The large drawing room has windows on the south flagstone floor and the principal staircase which receives natural and west sides including a deep projecting bay with window light from a delightful stained glass lantern above. The rear hall seats. The room features high ceilings with moulded cornices serves a cloakroom and boot room with door leading out to the and a most attractive fireplace with elaborate painted timber rear drive. mantelpiece. The elegant dining room has full height sash windows overlooking the front gardens and parkland, ornate An inner hallway leads to the kitchen with adjacent cold pantry, moulded ceiling cornices and a most impressive open fireplace utility room and larder and a store room, a well laid out collection with a tall marble mantelpiece. The morning room/library has of rooms at the heart of the house. The kitchen has a traditional substantial windows on the south and east elevations. The high brick floor and features a high ceiling with exposed timbers, a ceiling features substantial exposed timbers whilst other features range of traditional and more modern kitchen units and access of this impressive room include an oak strip floor, tall bookcases to a long inner hallway featuring diamond pattern quarry tiled and an open fireplace with cast iron grate, stone surround and floor and original butler’s bells. Off here radiate a number of tall carved timber mantelpiece. rooms including a butler’s pantry, which is adjacent to the dining room, a study, a playroom and the rear hall provides access to the secondary staircase and an independent external door. Marston Hall Approximate Gross Internal Area 729 sq.m / 7853 sq.ft The Hall Self-contained apartment Gardens and Grounds Outbuildings and farmstead The main drive to the Hall approaches from the west with a There is a range of traditional and modern farm building providing stabling, storage, garaging lovely gravelled carriage sweep flanked by areas of lawn, banks and livestock housing to the east of the Hall. of rhododendrons and some fine trees including Scots pine, yew, holly, beech and weeping beech. The drive leads to the front Buildings Table of the house where an expansive lawn expands out towards the front paddock, interspersed with some long-established trees to Number Name of building Description give a parkland feel with the church a prominent focal point of 1. Marston Hall Extensive accommodation over two floors and extending to an approximate the lovely view from this side of the house. The main driveway gross internal area of 7853sqft, 729sqm. continues to a turning area around a lawned island with beech, 2. Traditional stable Part two storey and part single storey. Red brick under tile. 4 stables and 9 Scots pine and a monkey puzzle tree. yard and associated associated store rooms. Can be approached from the drive or under a full buildings. height archway from the adjoining courtyard. “L” shaped gross dimensions The grounds to the south include an arboretum surrounded by extend to about 20.50m x 4.50m and 12.50m x 4.50m 10 wonderful holly and beech hedges, the former tennis lawn with 3. Traditional building A single storey red brick building under a fibre cement type roof providing a delightful rotating summerhouse and a partly walled garden. with extensions garaging, a potting shed and storage. Approximately 13.70m x 6.30m 11 12 Here lawns are interspersed with pathways lined with lavender, 4. Traditional Coach Forming part of the courtyard to the east of the Hall, a former coach house herbaceous borders together with a pergola and trellis work House with extensions of part single but predominantly two storey construction of red brick under tile clad with rambling roses. The original garden walls have some and with some sections of fibre cement type roofing. Provides various storage espaliered fruit trees and there is a good-sized greenhouse. rooms, an office and a boiler room. A tall archway in the coach house leads 8 13 Just outside the walled garden is a fenced kitchen garden with to a courtyard.