- Hopton Hall
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caption=Hopton Hall today
name=Hopton Hall
location_town=Hopton, Derbyshire
location_country=England
architect=
client=Thomas Gell
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construction_start_date=16th century
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style=|Hopton Hall is an 18th century country house at Hopton, near
Wirksworth ,Derbyshire . It is aGrade II listed building .The Manor of Hopton , anciently the seat of the de Hopton family, was acquired by the Gell family in the 14th century. John Gell was created a
Baronet in 1642 (seeGell Baronets ).The Baronetcy was extinct in 1719 and the estate passed to John Eyre who changed his name to Gell.The house has its origins in the 16th century when it was built by Thomas Gell as a two storey three bay
manor house . It was extended and remodelled by Philip Gell in the late 18th century. The north entrance front has three storeys and seven bays, flanked by tower wings with pyramidal roofs.Notable members of the Gell family include Philip Gell's younger brother, Admiral John Gell and Philip's son Sir
William Gell .J. K. Laughton , [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10509 ‘Gell, John (c.1740–1806)’] , rev. A. W. H. Pearsall, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ",Oxford University Press , 2004; online edition, January 2008, doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/10509. Retrieved 6 October 2008.]Philip Gell's daughter and heiress, married
William Pole Thornhill MP, on whose death the estate passed to his kinsman Henry Pole, later known as Henry Chandos-Pole-Gell (High Sheriff of Derbyshire ) in 1886.The estate of some 3700 acres was broken up in the 20th century. A major part was sold to a water authority for the creation of the
Carsington Reservoir . The house passed out of the family in 1995.References
* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=80047&mode=quick English Heritage; Images of England, architectural description of listed building]
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