English Heritage
Kirby Hall
Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan country house, located near Gretton, Northamptonshire, England. (Nearest town being Corby). Construction on the building began in 1570 based on the designs in French architectural pattern books and expanded in the classical style over the course of the decades. The house is now in a semi-ruined state with many parts roof-less. The building and gardens are owned by The Earl of Winchilsea, and managed by English Heritage.
Kirby Hall has been used as a filming location for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and A Christmas Carol for Ealing Studios in 1999, and Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story in 2005.
Kirby Hall
Corby NN173EN
01536 203 230
Kirby Hall is a fine Elizabethan and 17th century houses earlier owned by Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I.
The mansion is partly roofless, the walls show the rich decoration that proclaims that its successive owners were always in the forefront of new ideas about architecture and design. The Great Hall and state rooms remain intact, refitted and redecorated to authentic 17th and 18th century specifications.
It has recently restored gardens with elaborate ‘cutwork’ design complete with statues and urns.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/kirby-hall/
If you have a nice clean car these peacocks will peck at the reflection!
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