Great Glen Hall, Including Cistern

Great Glen Hall, including the cistern, is a small country house built in the early 19th century, likely for Sir George Robinson, Baronet. The building features colourwashed stuccoed brick and a low-pitch hipped roof made of Welsh slate, with brick ridge stacks. It is designed in the Nash villa style, characterized by a decorative band, wide bracketed eaves, and cast iron work with Egyptian details.

The house has two storeys, with five 2/2 sash windows on the first floor. There are two two-storey bowed projections and three recessed giant depressed arches at the center and on either side of the bows, all featuring depressed arched lintels. On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a French window with top lights, a bowed two-leaved part-glazed door, and three French windows with top lights. An open verandah with a glazed roof and cast iron supports runs along the entire front, following the shape of the bowed projections, and has a stone flagged floor.

At the right end of the building, there is a further two-storey bow with a window arrangement of 2/2, 4/4, and 2/2 sash windows above a tripartite French window. Inside, the staircase hall has walls outlined to resemble ashlar, with a stone flagged floor and staircase treads. A gallery is supported on cast iron brackets and features a cast iron balustrade with Egyptian details, topped with a lantern. The interior also includes six-panelled mahogany doors and marble fireplaces.

Adjacent to the rear of the house, linked by a brick wall, is a lead-lined water cistern made of stuccoed brick, designed in the Egyptian style. It has an octagonal plan, stands approximately 3 meters high, and tapers towards the top, where it has a hipped roof. The cistern features a foliage cornice frieze, a lion's head tap spout facing the garden, and a trough towards the yard. Great Glen Hall, previously known as the Manor House, was purchased by C.W. Packe in 1847 and was formerly owned by Sir George Robinson, Baronet, as noted in White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.