Kegworth Heritage Centre
Kegworth Heritage Plaques - The Great House
3, London Road
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2024
The Great House is Grade II listed and was built in 1698 for members of an old Kegworth family, the Suttons.
The style of building sees a transition between the uncomplicated timber frame houses of the Tudor and Stuart period and the grander brick Georgian houses. It owes its design to Dutch influence, thanks to William of Orange who came from Holland to become King with Mary Stuart as Queen. He brought with him a new style of architecture in the form of squares, rectangles and order. Another significant aspect of the building is the roofing which is composed of locally sourced Swithland Slate. Swithland gives its name to a line of ‘slate’ outcrops found along the east side of the Charnwood district of Leicestershire.
This late seventeenth century house is only one of a series of buildings on this ancient site, Excavations in the cellar have revealed the bases of pillars which supported a structure of the Roman period and a large domed kiln, whose stone Gothic door denotes a date sometime in the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Dr Bedford lived at the Great House and held his GP surgery there from around 1901 until sometime around 1948.
Sadly, the house is no longer occupied and has fallen into a state of disrepair in recent years.
The style of building sees a transition between the uncomplicated timber frame houses of the Tudor and Stuart period and the grander brick Georgian houses. It owes its design to Dutch influence, thanks to William of Orange who came from Holland to become King with Mary Stuart as Queen. He brought with him a new style of architecture in the form of squares, rectangles and order. Another significant aspect of the building is the roofing which is composed of locally sourced Swithland Slate. Swithland gives its name to a line of ‘slate’ outcrops found along the east side of the Charnwood district of Leicestershire.
This late seventeenth century house is only one of a series of buildings on this ancient site, Excavations in the cellar have revealed the bases of pillars which supported a structure of the Roman period and a large domed kiln, whose stone Gothic door denotes a date sometime in the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Dr Bedford lived at the Great House and held his GP surgery there from around 1901 until sometime around 1948.
Sadly, the house is no longer occupied and has fallen into a state of disrepair in recent years.