# Stockerston Hall

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{{Short description|18th-century English country house in Leicestershire}}
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'''Stockerston Hall''' is a late-18th-century [English country house](/source/English_country_house) in [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire), near the town of [Uppingham](/source/Uppingham), [Rutland](/source/Rutland). It is a [Grade II listed building](/source/Grade_II_listed_building).<ref name="NHLE">{{National Heritage List for England| num=1061622 |desc=Stockerston Hall |grade=II |accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref>

The Manor of [Stockerston](/source/Stockerston) was owned by the Boyville family in the 15th century and passed by marriage to Sothill and then to Drury. It was sold by Henry Drury in 1580 to John Burton of Braunston, whose son was the first of the [Burton baronets](/source/Burton_baronets) of Stockerston. In 1633, Sir Thomas Burton Bt was [High Sheriff of Leicestershire](/source/High_Sheriff_of_Leicestershire)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Thomas Burton, 1st Bt. |url=https://thepeerage.com/p13214.htm#i132133 |work=The Peerage |accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref> and in 1682 Sir Thomas Burton Bt had the same honour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thepeerage.com/p19045.htm#i190444  |title=Sir Thomas Burton, 3rd Bt. |work=The Peerage |accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref>

The Burtons were impoverished by the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War) and sold the estate to Sir Charles Dunscombe in about 1685. The Dunscombes demolished the old manor house in about 1797 and built the present [Georgian style](/source/Georgian_style) mansion upon its foundations in about 1800. The attractive red brick and stone dressed entrance front of five bays has a central [Tuscan order](/source/Tuscan_order) porch.

The house was sold by Dunscombe in about 1807 and a number of owners and tenants followed including Walker, Bellairs, Fenwicke,  Stevenson and from 1930 Whitgreave. By 1954 it was the residence of [John A. F. March Phillipps de Lisle](/source/John_de_Lisle_(cricketer)), [High Sheriff](/source/High_Sheriff) of Leicestershire<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40115|page=1315|date=2 March 1954}}</ref> who was succeeded by his son Everard, also high sheriff in 1974.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=46249|page=4007|date=28 March 1974}}</ref> The house and {{convert|269|acre|km2|adj=on}} estate were sold following the latter's death in 2003.

==References==
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*{{cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22072 |first1=J M |last1=Lee |first2=R A |last2=McKinley |title=A History of the County of Leicestershire, Volume 5: Gartree Hundred |date=1964 |chapter=Stockerston |page=303–8 |publisher=British History Online |location=London |accessdate=19 September 2016}}

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Category:Grade II listed buildings in Leicestershire
Category:Country houses in Leicestershire
Category:History of Leicestershire

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