Baggrave Hall

Baggrave Hall is a country house dating from the mid-18th century, with a small section from the 16th century and a wing built in 1776. The building is constructed of ashlar with stone dressings and features a hipped roof made of Swithland slate, along with brick ridge stacks. The 1776 wing is made of red brick. The entrance front has 2½ storeys and is adorned with seven 6/6 sash windows, which have moulded stone frames with aprons. The ground floor windows are similar. A central section with three windows projects slightly and is accented with quoins and a pediment above, featuring a moulded cornice. In the tympanum, there is an oval bull's eye window framed in carved stone. The central entrance is marked by a stone doorcase accessed by a flight of steps, with a moulded frame and a pediment supported by carved consoles, and it displays a coat of arms in the tympanum. The entrance door is a six-panelled design. The roof also features two hipped dormers with six panes each.

To the left, the 1776 two-storey wing includes wooden mullion and transom windows. Behind this wing is a three-storey half-octagonal staircase bay from the 16th century, which has stone mullion windows. The right garden front consists of five 6/6 sash windows and a central doorway on the ground floor, which has a two-leaved part-glazed door. This doorway also has a moulded stone frame with a pediment supported by carved consoles. At the rear, there are additional sash windows and a 17th-century wing with stone mullion windows.

Inside, the house features an 18th-century staircase with slim balusters, and the walls and ceiling are decorated with rococo-style stucco work. The Oak Room contains panelling, an overmantel, and pedimented doorcases, while the Drawing Room showcases mid-18th-century painted panelling and a richly carved fireplace with an overmantel in the Jacobean style. On the rear of the wing, there is a rainwater head inscribed with the initials B over AA, dated 1776. Baggrave Hall was acquired in the late 17th century by John Edwyn, whose grandson, also named John, undertook its rebuilding. The estate later passed to the Burnaby family through his daughter. The house is referenced in White's Leicestershire and Rutland from 1846 and in Pevsner, which includes an illustration of the Drawing Room fireplace.