Ashby Folville Manor

Ashby Folville Manor is a late 19th-century house in Neo-Tudor style in the village of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1891-1893 by the architect John Ely of Manchester after a fire.[1]

Ashby Folville Manor
Folville Street, looking to the Church of St Mary, Ashby Folville The estate boundary wall of Ashby Folville Manor is on the left.
General information
TypeHouse
Architectural styleNeo-Tudor
Town or cityAshby Folville
CountryUnited Kingdom
Current tenantsLeicester property developer Jamie Lewis
CompletedLate 19th-century
Renovated1891-1893
OwnerJamie Lewis

A camp for displaced people from Poland was established in a former US Army base in the grounds after World War II. The resettlement camp was occupied from 1948 until 1965.[2]

From 2004 - 2016 it was the home of Rosemary Conley.[3]

Notes and references

Sources

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)

52.6997°N 0.9544°W / 52.6997; -0.9544

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