Blaby Hall

Blaby Hall is a country house built in 1838 on the site of an earlier house dating from 1727, which may have incorporated some of its original features. The house is constructed of stucco over brick, with Welsh slate roofs. It is designed in a Jacobean style. The front of the house has two storeys and five bays, with the central bay projecting. A squared entrance porch rises from the central bay, featuring a recessed doorway flanked by single-light windows. Above this are five lights with mullions and a transom. There is a decorative frieze and a Dutch gable. The outer bays have four-light mullioned and transomed windows, all with lugged architraves. A double string course runs along the façade, with quoins on all corners, and a modillion eaves cornice. The roof is hipped with Welsh slate, and contains axial stacks with polygonal shafts. The south elevation has two bays, followed by a wing set back behind a courtyard. The north elevation is of seven bays, with a central Dutch gable containing a round-arched doorway now converted into a window and featuring a grotesque keystone. The other windows are four-light with mullions and transoms, and have lugged architraves. Two coped gabled dormers are above. A single-storey bay to the left is linked to the main block by a large, moulded volute. The interior contains plain marble fireplaces, and a staircase reputedly of earlier origin. Heavy roof trusses are also possibly from the earlier building.