Kingston Hall is a country house in

Kingston on Soar Kingston on Soar is a Village#United Kingdom, village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. Description Setting Kingston on Soar predominantly lies within the Trent Washlands ch ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

. It was built between 1842 and 1846 to designs by the architect

Edward Blore Edward Blore (13 September 1787 – 4 September 1879) was a 19th-century English landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. Early career Blore was born in Derby, the son of the antiquarian writer Thomas Blore. Blore's backg ...

for

Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Royal Society, FRS (26 October 1801 – 30 June 1880), was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancast ...

. It was made a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

in 1987. The grounds of Kingston Hall contains a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

Pavilion and a

stable block. In 1916 it was the birthplace of Lavinia Mary Strutt, (later

Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Lavinia Mary Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (''née'' Strutt; 22 March 1916 – 10 December 1995) was a British noblewoman. Life Born Lavinia Mary Strutt, she was the only daughter of Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper, and his wife, Eva ...

), daughter of

Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper Algernon Henry Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper (6 May 1883 – 20 May 1956), was 3rd Baron Belper from 1914 to 1956. He entered the British Army in August 1908 and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the 2nd Life Guards. He succeeded to ...

and his wife, Eva Strutt. It was subdivided into separate apartments in 1977.

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{{Commons category, Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire Country houses in Nottinghamshire Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire Edward Blore buildings

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