Thoresby Hall Hotel Nottinghamshire

Class : Under Long Term Investigation (LTI) - not actively investigating

Investigating Since : 2004

Approximately three miles from Clumber Park is the splendid residence of Thoresby Hall, once the home of the Duke of Kingston from whom the present noble owner, Earl Manvers, is descended.

NGRIT-UK have been investigating Thoresby Hall for over five years.

The original mansion was destroyed by fire in 1745. It had been enlivened by the presence of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague and other eminent personages. The Duke of Kingston replaced the old house, but his brick mansion has in turn given way to a glorious dwelling of Steetley stone in the Elizabethan style of architecture, which will ever remain a monument to the munificence and good taste of the present estimable Earl, to whom it owes its inception and construction.

On a visit to Thoresby Park, the Duke of Westminster, was surprised to find one of the grandest houses in England in the midst of a forest, where ‘Norman kings once hunted and Saxon outlaws plundered’. Vast and ornate, Thoresby Hall stands in the heart of a forest and which is beyond doubt, one of the stateliest mansions, which are scattered over this great island.

Thoresby Hall’s situation gives it an advantage and a charm, which scarcely any other residence in the country possesses. In 1745, when this magnificent residence was destroyed by fire, the second, and last, Duke of Kingston built a house of considerable magnificence at the foot of a beautiful grove of Spanish chestnuts.

This great house, which is the boast of the north, measures approximately 180 feet on the east and principal entrance, and 159 on the west, and 182 on the south. Its stonewalls are as white as when the material of which they are composed was first smoothed, and from the hammer-beam roof to the floor of patterned oak, it has a look of imposing newness. All the oak in the room, and there is a great deal of it, was grown in the adjoining forest.

In the late 20th Century, this great house was threatened by subsidence. In 1989, the Hall was sold to the Warner Leisure Group and was re-opened as a hotel in 2000 and has since been extended.

Over the years NGRIT-UK have been investigating and studying the strange activity at Thoresby Hall Hotel, they have built a fascinating database of events which still puzzle, shock and captivate its members and Warner staff.