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Maxwell Craven, ‘Littleover Grange, Derbyshire’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. xV, 2006, pp. 215–228

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham has been justly lauded for his important contribution to theGothic revival, but in re-establishing his reputation,Janet Myles was unable to find much of his work inthe classical style, beyond an early scheme for southLondon housing, preliminary ideas for Snelston Hallin Derbyshire and a number of ambitious but unbuiltschemes for public buildings in the capital.Thisarticle discusses some previously unpublisheddesigns by Cottingham for a classical villa atLittleover on the south-western edge of Derby, andsuggests that the house which was built there was areduced version of one of Cottingham’s proposals,probably by the local amateur architect RichardLeaper. The house was altered in –, enlargedin and again in by T.H.Thorpe andPartners, gutted by fire in , and subsequentlyrebuilt to the designs of Mr Graham Watson (Fig. ).The drawings (formerly in the Stanton collection

from Snelston Hall, and for many years on deposit atthe Derbyshire Record Office) were sold in .

They were catalogued as designs for Snelston Hall,although one was entitled ‘A Design for a Villaintended to be erected at Little Over, near Derby forJohn Harrison Esqr’. This drawing was marked‘No.’, and another eleven, marked with sequentialnumbers up to (with two sheets, Nos. and ,missing), were clearly part of the sequence. Anotherunnumbered sheet was entitled ‘A Design for a Villafor Mr Harrison’, and appears to have represented analternative design. All were in pen and wash, signedby Cottingham, but none were dated. The paper waswatermarked ‘Turkey Mill J Whatman [or

]’, but another drawing in the same sale (‘Sketchfor Additions &c to Snelston Hall’) was dated June, although also drawn on paper watermarked. The drawings are therefore Cottingham’sproposals for John Harrison’s house, LittleoverGrange, and they must have been made some time,perhaps shortly, after .John Harrison was a Derby attorney, who

inherited Snelston Hall in , and Yeldersley Hallin , both through his wife. His ownership ofLittleover was not previously known.However, hewas described as of Littleover in his father-in-law’swill, proved in ; a valuation of the parish ofLittleover in reveals that Harrison then owned acres, rods and perches of land there; anddirectories establish that his house there wasLittleover Grange.

Harrison was the son of the first marriage ofanother John Harrison, who appears to haveestablished the family fortune.The elder Harrisonhad been a yeoman in the village of Normanton-by-Derby (then actually part of the parish of St Peter,Derby). He was baptised there on October ,and on becoming a freeman of Derby on March he was described as a framesmith. But in

he set up in business as an attorney, and took SamuelRichardson Radford into partnership in . Theroute by which he navigated his career through suchchanges in less than eighteen years seems to be lostto us, but his purchase, shortly before his death, ofMundy House, The Wardwick, Derby, from EdwardMiller-Mundy of Shipley Hall, MP, may imply apowerful patron.The elder Harrison first married

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and Derbyshire bench, and in he served as HighSheriff of Derbyshire. He obtained a grant of arms in.His retirement was occasioned both by thedeath of his father-in-law the year before and by thetermination of an inheritance dispute two yearspreviously, which Harrison had been instrumental inresolving self-interestedly.

His father-in-law was Edmund Evans ofYeldersley Hall, whose daughter and heiress,Elizabeth, he had married at St Werburgh’s, Derby,on September . Evans was a member of arecently emergent manufacturing family closely alliedwith the Strutts, and he had built Yeldersley Hall afew years before.The inheritance dispute, however,concerned the Lower Hall estate at Snelston, whichhad descended to the childless Margaret Bowyer,Mrs Edward Okeover, during whose time the house

Juliana Saxelby, who died on June , leavinghim with two daughters and a son – the youngerJohn. In January he married Mary, daughter ofRevd. George Almond, whilom headmaster of DerbySchool, who had married another Normantonyeoman’s daughter; indeed, conceivably Harrisonand his second wife were kin. By this marriageHarrison had a third daughter, Mary.He died on January .

The younger John Harrison, was born on June and was baptised at St Werburgh’s church threedays later. Where he was educated is not clear, but hewas at the Inner Temple by . In he was inDerby, taking over his father’s practice as an attorney,and in he entered into partnership withBenjamin Frear, retiring in .On his retirementHarrison was appointed to both the Staffordshire

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Fig. . Littleover Grange, Derby, south elevation. Maxwell Craven, .

her death in ,Harrison’s mother-in-law havingpre-deceased her husband in . Until ,therefore, Harrison had reason to contemplatebuilding a suburban house for himself, convenientlynear his office at – St Mary’s Gate. Cottingham’sdrawings for Littleover were presumably madebefore this date.Nos. – St Mary’s Gate has a pretty small

stable block and coach-house of c. with Soaniangrooving on the stone gatepiers (Fig. ). CouldHarrison also have obtained designs for this fromCottingham? Janet Myles suggested that Harrisonand Cottingham might either have been put in touchby mutual friends in the Inner Temple or throughDerby-born Edward Blore, whose father had been aDerby attorney and antiquary, said to have servedarticles to one E. Evans.The latter is more

there burnt down. She had then re-married theRevd. Thomas Langley and outlived him. On herdeath, Langley’s son, Thomas, her step-son, tookover, but when he died in , the estate wasclaimed by Elizabeth Harrison and her unmarriedsister, Sarah Evans, against Thomas’s son, the Revd.John Langley, and his aunt, Mrs Welch. ElizabethHarrison and Sarah Evans, meanwhile had alreadyinherited Snelston Upper Hall, bought by their unclein from the Bowyers.

Harrison established his right to the entireSnelston estate in , proposed extensions toUpper Hall immediately and progressed to ideas fora new house on the same site within three and a halfyears. It was eventually built in . Although healso inherited Yeldersley Hall in , EdmundEvans’s second wife remained ensconced there until



Fig. . Nos. –, St Mary’s Gate, Derby, stable yard gate piers. Maxwell Craven, .

The ground floor fenestration is set in blind archeswith rather Soanian panelled aprons. The verandahand side portico are omitted. The three chimneystacks have also acquired some Soanian acroteria.Nos. and both have overhanging eaves. In

No., on the other hand, the hipped roof rests on theblocking course of a neat, fairly plain cornice (Fig. ).It too has seven bays, with the three central baysrecessed and more closely set. It has no ornamentother than a continuous first-floor sill band, sunkpanels below the ground floor windows, and a flutedbaseless Doric portico framing the door alone. Thegeneral effect is rather pedestrian, perhaps in partbecause the elevation is given no setting and thedrawing itself is less robustly executed.No., however, is in the style of execution of

Nos. and , and is closest to what was eventuallybuilt (Fig. ). The elevation is of five bays only, andthe centre was recessed as in No., with two baysflanking the door, over which is a niche. There is atetrastyle Ionic portico spanning the recessedportion, but projecting beyond the side bays, both ofwhich are wide with the fenestration recessed almostas if between abnormally wide antae. The wideflanking bays are broken up by two-storey recessedpanels in which the windows are set. The groundfloor has Wyatt windows set in blind segmentalarches. Like Nos. and , the roof has overhangingeaves, with the addition of barge boards ornamentedby sunk panels. Its chimneys repeat the Soanianornament of No. .No. illustrates the west side elevation and fits

best with the plans of No. and the elevation of No. (Fig. ). It has seven bays, of which the five centralbays are slightly recessed and more closely set. It hasa single-storey tent-roofed ornamental iron verandahof filigree delicacy. The wide end bays are relieved byblind two-storey segmental arches, and their ground-floor windows are set within blind round arches, asophisticated and neatly satisfactory arrangementrather reminiscent of Joseph Pickford’s villas of fiftyyears before.

persuasive, especially as Harrison himself was abudding antiquary, or at least a collector ofcuriosities.

Of the drawings sold in , those numbered , and (and apparently the missing No.) are plans.The proposed house was to be a square of sevenbays, with a central courtyard. No. (on paperwatermarked ) shows the entrance on the southside, with a three-bay break front. A hall with ovallobbies gives access, via a screen, to an imperialstaircase lit from the courtyard. The east and westelevations are similar, with end bays which contain atripartite window in a modest projection flankingfive-bay centres, that on the west having the centralbay adapted as a door. The north range was intendedas a service wing.No. amplifies this. The screen was to be Ionic

and the stair, having risen to mezzanine level in asingle broad flight, divided and turned a right anglevia three further steps before turning again to reachthe landing in two equally broad flights. The hall wasto be flanked by the dining room (west) and thedrawing room (east), each benefiting from twosoutherly lights and a tripartite one to the returns.Behind the dining room was to be the breakfastroom, then ‘John Harrison’s room’ and beyond‘John Harrison’s drawing room’. Beyond the maindrawing room on the east front were staff rooms.The courtyard appears to have been intended tohave a peristyle.Nos., and are different schemes for the

entrance front. No. is again of seven bays, with athree bay pedimented break front (Fig. ). The groundfloor has a continuous elegant Doric peristyle. Thefirst floor sill band develops into pedestals under thetwo windows which flanked the central one; thesewere the only windows not set in a blind arch withdepressed top. The west side has an iron verandahbut the east side has a stone or stuccoed portico.In No. the break front is narrower, with a

central niche rather than a window, and the peristyleis restricted to it alone, forming a portico (Fig. ).





Fig. . L.N.Cottingham, proposal drawing No. for Littleover Grange, c.–. Mellors and Kirk.

Fig. . L.N.Cottingham, proposal drawing No. for Littleover Grange, c.–. Mellors and Kirk.

plan. The main range has bays, the central triobeing substantially wider, taller, pedimented andcentrally embellished with a truly Soanian cylindricaland horizontally grooved drum set on three griecesand topped by a cupola resting on a cornice underan iron weathercock. Without the cupola, however,its effect is arrestingly Palladian, each bay alternatingbetween doors and blind panels, all set in blindarches and with small thermal windows above theimpost band in each bay. The centrepiece has twowide end bays flanking a narrow recessed centralone, with tall and wide arches below the former anda narrow one with a thermal window above and inthe middle. Above a band, which continues thecornice of the wings, are arranged three low tripartitewindows with a blind depressed arch above each,echoing the treatment of the main façade of thehouse as depicted in Nos. and . The pediment isembellished with a clock.

This elevation also shows a lower pavilion to thenorth, illustrated end-on, apparently connected by aplain low connecting quadrant. This building isabsent from any of the plans that survive, however,and may represent a phase where Cottingham hadprovided for a U-plan house open to the north withthe service range set back and connected by quadrants. No. is a section of the southern rooms, facing

north (Fig. ). The central double doors of the hallare flanked by niches filled with statues, as in No..The dining room and drawing rooms either sidehave dadoes, low pilastered chimney pieces andmirrored overmantels. Above, there are twobedrooms flanking two dressing rooms, the latterwith a rather archaic arrangement of back-to-backcorner fireplaces. No. is a section of a staircase andclearly went with No. . The final pair of drawings are for a substantial

stable block (Fig. ); No. is an elevation, No. a



Fig. . L.N.Cottingham, proposal drawing No. for Littleover Grange, stables, c.–. Mellors and Kirk.

appropriate frieze and topped by an iron balustrade.The west front, of six bays, the two wider central onesrecessed and embellished with an iron verandah,neatly emphasises this point. The east front, too, offive evenly spaced bays, was to have been embellishedwith a central small ornamental iron portico.No. specified that the verandah was to be

wrought, but it is not specified whether the porticobalustrade was to be wrought or cast. Derby at thisperiod had two foundries specialising in ornamentalwork, with a third, Weatherhead, Glover, & Co. ofDuke Street, founded in . It may be that thedrawings were prepared in Cottingham’s Londonoffice, and he was perhaps unaware of the localavailability of cast-iron details. All the designs show

The unnumbered design, like No., is also onpaper watermarked (Fig. ). It includes south(left) and west (right) elevations, ground, first floorand basement plans, a roof plan and a section, all onone sheet. The central courtyard is eliminated in thisscheme and the staircase apse is lit from a courtrecessed into the north side. The staff stair runs upalongside the main one and the landing is galleriedwith a screen or arcade on the west side in front ofthe master suite. The entrance front is of five bays,the wide single central one being recessed. And, onthe upper storey, which is separated by a plain band,the central one was flanked by a pair of niches, eachfilled with statuary. The portico below is semi-circular,supported by a pair of baseless Doric columns with



Fig. . L.N.Cottingham, unnumbered proposal drawing for Littleover Grange, c.–. Mellors and Kirk.

the supervision of a trusted local man and friend likeAlderman Richard Leaper (–), aidedby local builders, probably Joseph and ThomasCooper.

Certainly the canted bays strongly suggestLeaper, who used virtually identical ones ab initioon Highfield House, Derby, c.. Leaper mayalso have seen Cottingham’s drawings, for the planon the unnumbered drawing illustrated an ellipticalentrance hall leading via a door and cross passage toa dog-leg staircase turning in an apse, and this stairarrangement occurs locally at Leaper’s ThornhillHouse, in the district of California, and at Mill HillHouse, Mill Hill Lane, Derby, complete by andattributable to Leaper, both nearby. A stable blockof epic proportions added to The Pastures,Mickleover, which was built to designs by RichardLeaper for John Peel, cotton spinner, in ,

closely resembles Cottingham’s stable design, thecentral tower drastically simplified. Leaper’s sightof Cottingham’s drawings could be explained if hewas the builder of Littleover Grange. Although there is little documentation of the

construction of Littleover Grange, it appears to havebeen standing by the time John Harrison’s father-in-law died on October . By about it hadbeen let to his fellow attorney and whilom partner,William Williamson, and Harrison had presumablymoved into Snelston. Later still, John ThomasMorley, a lace manufacturer, lived there, but in itwas sold to the iron founder Reuben Eastwood. Itmay well have been he who turned the house round,adding a portico with paired composite columns onthe north side (Fig. ). It may also have been himwho built the staircase; it was timber, of earlyeighteenth-century type, with carved tread ends andtwo differently turned balusters (with knops) pertread, but in mahogany. This apparently Victorianconfection implies the loss of the original hall andstaircase. Eastwood’s most noticeable change was to add a

small west extension, set well back from the south

the house to have been stuccoed, no doubt withBrookhouse’s Roman Cement, made nearby inDerby, and very popular at this period amongst localbuilders.

Littleover Grange as built was a variant ofdrawing No. , but with the antaemuch reduced inwidth and the chimneys heightened (Fig. ). Theorder of the portico became Composite instead ofIonic and, although there was no outward sign of thecentral niche, a workman employed in the cleaningup of the blackened shell prior to rebuilding in

reported that the central first floor exterior niche hadbeen built but later crudely blocked up and stuccoedover.The ground-floor end bays were occupied bysingle storey canted bays with cornices matching thatof the portico and the sill band was replaced by aplat band.The east elevation as built had only three bays,

albeit retaining the tripartite window on the return.The north front seems originally to have been of fivewidely-spaced bays with a central portico of two pairsof Composite columns supporting a plain frieze, dentilcornice and dwarf parapet, a shortened version of theportico on the south side. The north front was alsoasymmetrical, with the west side breaking forwardconsiderably, giving the impression that the reductionin accommodation was done crudely by the deletionof a third of the east side but not of the west.Clearly the house was built on a much less

ambitious scale than all the proposals and it may bethat the missing drawing No. embodied this finalmanifestation. Yet what appears to have been builtlacks the refinement of most of the drawings, andsmall but telling details appear to have been changed,like the addition of surrounds to the windows, whereon the drawings there were only recessed panels ordiscreet blind arcading. It is possible that by the time he was ready to build

Harrison realised that he was going to get eventualpossession of Snelston, so reduced his requirementto a seat that was adequate temporarily and thereaftereasy to let. If so, Harrison may have left the task to



However, the outbreak of war led to the house beingrequisitioned (and later purchased) by Rolls-Royceas an overspill development office for Merlinengines. Only a group of yellow brick outbuildings,without doubt additions for Eastwood, remainedwith the Council and are still in community use. Rolls-Royce (colloquially, in Derby, invariably

‘Royce’s’) added a rather utilitarian west wingcontaining specialist workshops and lecture roomsin vaguely matching style (Fig. ). It had Crittallwindows but was stuccoed to match the house, andpainted white. The previous stone colour onlysurvived on the frieze and entablature of theporticoes, and on the cornice and dwarf parapets ofthe canted bays. Royce’s used it until the company’sbankruptcy in when it was vacated and put onthe market by the Receiver.

It was quickly purchased, extended and openedin October as the headquarters of the Derbyshire

front, which boasted an Italianate campanile with asmoking room at the top, lit by paired round-archedwindows with prominent keyblocks, an impost bandand blind balustrades below the sills, all under apyramidal roof (Fig. ). But Eastwood had notactually moved into Littleover Grange, and hisalterations were incomplete, when he died aged ,on February .

Eastwood was succeeded by his widow, Sarah,the sister of municipal grandee and long-serving MPThomas Roe, later st (and last) Lord Roe of Derby,who died there in July . By then the twoEastwood sons had moved out, leaving it to their fourunmarried sisters. On the death of the last of these,Florence Deborah, in , the house, outbuildingsand gardens were sold to the Parish Council for£,, and the remainder of the estate went to localspeculative builders, Messrs. Fryer, for £,, andwere covered with semi-detached housing.



Fig. . Littleover Grange, Derby, north elevation. Maxwell Craven.

FRIBA, but with brushed aluminium sliding windows.Furthermore, as well as completely renewing theinterior, the opportunity was taken to extend theremaining shell in order to accommodate abanqueting suite, so that part of the building can behired out for functions.This involved drasticallyaltering the proportions of the south front by theaddition of about eight feet at the east end, and arather longer addition to the west, completely hidingthe base of Eastwood’s campanile. Further alterationswere also made on the north side.

Freemasons to serve Derbyshire lodges, althoughthe initiators were the officials of Derby’s originallodge, the Tyrian, founded in . The stable blockwas demolished and a vast new wing with a largeMasonic temple at first floor level, over-sailing alodging for the Tiler, was erected northward fromthe Royce extension, constructed of window-lesspre-cast concrete slabs, interspersed with Cornishgranite and Norwegian marble. The architects wereT. H. Thorpe & Partners of Derby.

Unfortunately, a close examination of the fabric isnot now possible, for the entire building caught fireon the early morning of December and theoriginal portion was completely gutted. TheFreemasons lost a year-old collection ofirreplaceable museum-quality relics and documents.

Since then the house has been rebuilt under thedirection of the Masonic architect Graham Watson,



Fig. . Littleover Grange, Derby, south elevation, showing west wing built by Messrs. Rolls Royce in . Maxwell Craven.

She married Maj. George Young, son of Sir WilliamYoung, nd Bt., of Dominica on August , andhad ‘numerous issue’ including the Derby architectJulian Young, who designed the extension toSt Helen’s House, Derby, in [J. Foster, Peerage,London, , II, ; Builder, April ;Burke’s Landed Gentry, London, –, III, ].

Burke’s Landed Gentry, London, , I, . Mallender, cit. M.A.J.B.Craven, ‘A Derbyshire Armory’, Derbyshire

Record Society, XVII, , . The arms he usedpreviously were without authorisation.

Glover, op. cit., II, . Harrison’s elder sister, Ann (baptised at StWerburgh’s

Feb. ), had married James Stanton there onDecember ; their only son, Henry Stanton,married Juliana, third daughter of John Harrison byElizabeth Evans in , and it was his son whoeventually succeeded to the Harrison estates. Twoweeks before his own marriage Harrison’s othersister, Juliana, had married John Stanton, JamesStanton’s nephew, in the same church [Burke(), loc.cit.].

Craven and Stanley, op. cit., II, –. The saga is explained more fully in Craven andStanley, op. cit., II, . Elizabeth Evans won hercase through descent from the Bowyers via hermother, Dorothy daughter and heiress of FrancisColes of Birmingham by Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of William Bowyer of Snelston.

Myles, op. cit., ; Mellors & Kirk, op. cit., ff.,lots & et seq.

Howard Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of BritishArchitects –, New Haven and London,, .

John Harrison extended Yeldersley Hall after hisfather-in-law’s death in , but none of thedrawings in the former Stanton collection seem torelate to this. Conceivably any muniments were soldwith the house in to the Duchess of York’sgreat grandfather, Henry FitzHerbert Wright. In anycase the new wing Harrison caused to be added wastactfully designed to exactly match the main blockof c. and betrays none of the features of thedrawings sold in December . The work couldwell have been undertaken by an Ashbournebuilder. From until his death in ,Yeldersley was the seat of his son, a third John(–), although it was let after and sold in [Craven and Stanley, op. cit., II, –].

N O T E S

Janet Myles, L. N. Cottingham – Architect ofthe Gothic Revival, London, , , –, –.

Mellors & Kirk, Gregory Street, Lenton Lane,Nottingham, NG NL, sale of –December ,lots –, catalogue pp. –. The collectionwas broken up amongst a number of purchasers.

Ibid., lot ; Myles, op. cit., , fig. . It was thought of as a fiefdom of the Heathcotefamily of the Smythson-esque Littleover Old Hall[M.A.J.B.Craven & M.F.Stanley, The DerbyshireCountry House, Ashbourne, , –], and ofthe Peels, for whom Richard Leaper designed ThePastures in the west of the parish [S. Glover, History& Gazetteer of Derbyshire, nd edn., Derby, /,II, , ]. The Peels were cousins of the PrimeMinister and cotton spinners at Burton-upon-Trentand Fazeley in Staffs.

Derby, Messrs Taylor, Simpson and Mosley(solicitors), deeds of Littleover Grange. I am gratefulto Messrs Paul Grimwood-Taylor and MichaelMallender for their kind assistance.

Derby, Derby Local Studies Library (hereafterDLSL), DL Box , pp. –. House and parkoccupied the former Heath and Hackendale Closes.Although Gervase Bennet, a seventeenth-centuryowner of the Snelston estate, also owned an estate atLittleover, Harrison would seem to have purchasedthis land, released as part of the Littleover andNormanton enclosure award of [Feoffment onland on Littleover and Normanton Commons,between Ralph Melland and Samuel Simpson, July, private collection, courtesy Dr Alan Hough].

There is a basic account of the Harrison family inBurke’s Landed Gentry, London, , I, ; allsupplementary information is from the parishregister transcripts in Derby Local Studies Library.

DLSL, Burgess Rolls, H. DLSL, Robotham Deeds, DL , No. , August

; M.A.J.B.Craven, The Derby Town House,Derby, , –; on Harrison’s legal career I amindebted to Michael Mallender, Esq., one of thepartners in Harrison’s successor firm, Messrs.Taylor, Simpson & Mosley (pers. comm. March). Radford was later struck off for defalcation.

Almond was a BA of Trinity College, Cambridge,Headmaster of Derby School from to , andVicar of Chellaston from to ; he wasburied on November [B. Tachella, DerbySchool Register, Derby, , xi].



decade thanks to the Health Authority, is unknown.Applications to spot list both Mill Hill andThornhill have been refused.

DLSL, sale particulars of The Pastures, ; JosephHunter, ‘Familiae Minorum Gentium’, HarleianSociety, , .

Craven and Stanley, op. cit., II, –. Thesestables seem to have been added after alongwith a pretty Gothick double lodge at the gates,almost certainly by Leaper.

Craven and Stanley, op. cit., II, –, wheresome of the information is superseded by thisarticle, but which gives a reliable account of thehistory of the house subsequent to ; DerbyMercury, February , Eastwood’s obituary.Eastwood’s firm was founded by his father James inThe Moreldge, Derby, in , but by anamalgamation of became Eastwood andSwingler of Cotton Lane and Osmaston Road, Derby[M.A.J.B.Craven, Derby, An Illustrated History,Derby, , –; pers. comm., A.R.Eastwood,Esq., of Bramhall, Cheshire, March ].

He was then living at The White House, OsmastonRoad, very close to his works [C.N. Wright,Directory of Derby, Nottingham, , ].

Craven and Stanley, op. cit., , the latter figurecourtesy of Eastwood, cit.

My thanks are due to Mike Evans Esq. and the RollsRoyce Heritage Trust for this information.

Derby Evening Telegraph, October , , cols.–.

Derby Evening Telegraph, December . The Square, March , –.

Dorothy Evans died in and the enterprisingEdmund re-married Sophia Webster at Chapel-en-le-Frith parish church on May ; perhaps solate a re-marriage finished him off.

Although gutted on the ground floor, this buildingremains in situ.

Myles, loc.cit. ‘Edward’ Evans [Derby Miscellany, I(), June , ] does not seem to exist; he iscertainly none of the Edmund Evanses of the familyof John Harrison’s wife. Nevertheless, Blore’s Derbyconnections were impeccable.

I am indebted to the late Col.J.R.G.(‘ Pongo’)Stanton for this information.

For instance, at Pickford’s own house, No. FriarGate, Derby, at Etruria Hall, Staffs., and at OgstonHall, Derbs. [Edward Saunders, Joseph Pickford ofDerby, Stroud, , , ].

Glover, op. cit., II, –. Ibid., . Pers. comm., November . That part of thesouth wall was taken down and reinstated withoutthe anomalies.

Craven, Derby Town House, cit, –. Mill Hillwas sold for demolition in July .

On the Coopers see Colvin, op. cit., . Josephused plaster cornices identical to those at LittleoverGrange at Parkfields House, Kedleston Road(attested as by him in Glover, op. cit., II, –) andvery old-fashioned they were too, for those used byJoseph Pickford in his dining room at his ownhouse in Derby, , are extremely similar.

Colvin, op. cit., . Idem. The likely fate of Thornhill, derelict for over a



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