Three Manors Walk

Quenby Hall

Quenby Hall is a Jacobean house in parkland near the villages of Cold Newton and Hungarton, Leicestershire, England. It is described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most important early-seventeenth century house in the county of Leicestershire". The Hall is Grade I listed, and the park and gardens Grade II, by English Heritage.

The house was built between 1618 and 1636 by George Ashby (1598–1653), High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1627. The village of Quenby was held by the Ashby family from the 13th century and remains of the village are in the present park. There may have been a house on the site before building of the current house which began in 1618. A clock on the west front is dated 1620. Building finished in 1636. The house is 'H-shaped' and on a hillside location. It has three storeys and a very shallow pitched roof.

The hall has a number of notable features, including the Great Hall, the Long Gallery, and the Brown Parlour. The Great Hall is the largest room in the house, and is decorated with Jacobean plasterwork. The Long Gallery is a long, narrow room that runs the length of the house. It is lined with portraits of the Ashby family. The Brown Parlour is a small, intimate room that is decorated with oak panelling.

The hall is surrounded by a park of 1,400 acres. The park was created in the early 17th century, and contains a variety of trees, including oak, beech, and elm. There is also a walled garden, which was created in the 18th century.

Baggrave Hall

Baggrave Hall is an 18th-century Grade II* listed country house in the parish of Hungarton, Leicestershire. It is a two and three-storey building in Palladian style, constructed in ashlar in the 1750s, with a Swithland slate hipped roof and brick-ridge chimney stacks. An extra wing in red brick can be dated to 1776. The current grounds cover 220 acres (89 ha). The hall was listed in 1951, but suffered serious damage from an owner in 1988–1990.

The hall belonged in the later 17th century to John Edwyn, whose grandson, also John, rebuilt it, but incorporated some parts of the 16th-century manor house. In 1770, his daughter Anna Edwyn married Andrew Burnaby, archdeacon of Leicester, and so ownership of the estate passed to the Burnaby family. Later owners included Edwyn Burnaby, high sheriff of Leicestershire, his son Edwyn Burnaby, and his grandson Algernon Edwyn Burnaby. Baggrave Hall was the childhood home of Louisa Burnaby, a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Soon after Algernon Burnaby's death in 1938, his son and heir Hugh Edwyn Burnaby sold the estate.

The hall is set in a parkland of 220 acres (89 ha), which was landscaped in the 18th century. The park contains a number of features, including a lake, a ha-ha, and a number of follies.

Lowesby Hall

Lowesby Hall is a large Grade II* Georgian mansion in the parish and former manor of Lowesby, eight miles east of Leicester in Leicestershire. It is a famous fox-hunting seat in the heart of the Quorn country.

The hall was built in 1724 by Sir William Fermor, 2nd Baronet, and was later owned by the Spencer-Churchill family. In 1927, Lady Victoria Bullock, a house-guest of the 10th Duke of Marlborough, was killed while hunting with the Quorn Hounds from Hungarton, having caught her head on a low archway, and her body was returned to Lowesby Hall.

The hall was sold to Sir Edmund Keith Nuttall, 2nd Baronet, in 1934. The hall is surrounded by 50 hectares of parkland, which contains part of the earthwork remains of the medieval village of Lowesby. The parkland was landscaped in the 18th century and includes a lake, a ha-ha, and a number of specimen trees.

The gardens at Lowesby Hall were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the early 20th century. The gardens are now much simplified, but they still retain some of their original features, such as the rose garden and the Italian garden.