Nether_Hall,_Doncaster

Nether Hall, Doncaster

Nether Hall, Doncaster

Historic site in South Yorkshire, England

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

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

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