Nether Hall, Doncaster
History
The building was designed as a mansion for the Copley family of Sprotbrough and was completed in the early to mid 18th century.
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 8th Baronet sold an estate in Barbados with 150 slaves for £14,285 and purchased Nether Hall in 1841.
It became a private school in the 1870s and then became the headquarters of the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons in the early 20th century. The regiment was mobilised at Nether Hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. The hall was decommissioned after the war and acquired by Doncaster Rural District Council in 1921; a rear wing was built for use as a council chamber. Following the Local Government Act 1974 the hall was used to accommodate the finance department of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. After the finance department moved to new civic offices in Sir Nigel Gresley Square in 2013, Nether Hall was sold at auction for £410,000 in 2014. The building was offered for sale by auction again, by Allsop of London, with a guide price of £425,000 or more, in September 2023.
References
- ^ "Nether Hall". British listed buildings. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ Wainwright, John (1829). An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill : with Ample Account of Doncaster and Conisbrough, and of the Villages, Hamlets, Churches, Antiquities and Other Matters Connected Therewith. John Blackwell. p. 113.
Nether Hall copley.
- ^ "Lt. Gen. Sir Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean 8th Baronet of Morvern". Centre for the study of the legacies of British slavery. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ Holland, Derek; Holland, Enid (2013). A Yorkshire Town: The Making of Doncaster. Sarah Holland. p. 108. ISBN 978-1909468016.
- ^ "Doncaster". The Drill Hall Project. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Hall under the hammer". South Yorkshire Times. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ^ "Lot 399 - Doncaster". Allsop. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.