Nether Hall, Doncaster

For the house in Suffolk, see Nether Hall, Suffolk.

Nether Hall, Doncaster
Nether Hall, Doncaster
LocationDoncaster, South Yorkshire, England
Coordinates53°31′33″N 1°07′45″W / 53.5257°N 1.1292°W / 53.5257; -1.1292
BuiltEarly to mid 18th century
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated18 April 1969
Reference no.1192739
Nether Hall, Doncaster is located in South Yorkshire
Nether Hall, Doncaster
Location in South Yorkshire

Nether Hall is a large mansion in Doncaster. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

History

The building was designed as a mansion for the Copley family of Sprotbrough[2] and was completed in the early to mid 18th century.[1]

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 8th Baronet sold an estate in Barbados with 150 slaves for £14,285 and purchased Nether Hall in 1841.[3]

It became a private school in the 1870s[4] and then became the headquarters of the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons in the early 20th century.[5] The regiment was mobilised at Nether Hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front.[6] The hall was decommissioned after the war and acquired by Doncaster Rural District Council in 1921;[4] a rear wing was built for use as a council chamber.[1] Following the Local Government Act 1974 the hall was used to accommodate the finance department of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.[4] 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.[7] 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.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Nether Hall". British listed buildings. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ a b c Holland, Derek; Holland, Enid (2013). A Yorkshire Town: The Making of Doncaster. Sarah Holland. p. 108. ISBN 978-1909468016.
  5. ^ "Doncaster". The Drill Hall Project. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Hall under the hammer". South Yorkshire Times. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Lot 399 - Doncaster". Allsop. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.