Langford Hall

Langford Hall is a country house in Langford, Nottinghamshire. The house is built in the neo-classical style and has many interesting architectural features. It is Grade II* listed and stands in 83 acres of parkland.

It is constructed in two storeys of red brick with ashlar dressings and standing on an ashlar plinth with a hipped slate roof. The frontage has 5 bays.

History

Originally the house was built c.1774, probably as a hunting lodge, by John Carr of York for Charles Slingsby Duncombe (1746-1803) who owned all the land in Langford and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1834–35. His son, Charles Duncombe (1764-1841) was created 1st Baron Feversham of Duncombe Park near Helmsley, North Yorkshire in 1826. A memorial tablet to Slingsby Duncombe, who also lived in Bryanston Square London, is in Langford Church.

In 1832 the estate, along with that of nearby Winthorpe, was sold by Duncombe to Lord Middleton, who had estates in Yorkshire and also owned Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. The Middleton family owned Langford until 1925 when the estate was sold to Trinity College, Cambridge.