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In 1920 the hall and estate were bought by Lord Michelham of Hellingby and, in 1940 by an industrialist, Gustav Sonderman of Sheffield. From September 1940 to May 1946 it was used by the Red Cross as a convalescent home for wounded servicemen. In 1954 it passed to a daughter, married to Fritz Eske, who demolished it and built the present smaller hall which now belongs to the Wilkinson family.
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Husbands Bosworth Hall consists of two houses, the Old Hall and a newer Georgian-style hall, situated on Theddingworth Road, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire. The Old Hall, originally constructed in Norman times, was substantially renovated in the 16th century as a west facing country house. The new and additional Georgian hall was then built facing south west, adjoining the older house, in about 1790. In about 1870 a Victorian Gothic wing was created to link the two buildings. The whole is a Grade II* listed building.
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Saddington Hall, opposite the Manor House, is a large square-planned house of two stories and attics and three distinct building periods. The earliest, dated 1679, is ironstone and brick; A gable-end wall dated 1682 is a patchwork of limestone and cobbles. A brick pavilion of late 18th-century origin adjoins the gable.
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Skeffington Hall is a 15th-century Manor House which stands in parkland off the main street of the village of Skeffington, Leicestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is privately owned.
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Noseley Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated at Noseley, Billesden, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building. Anciently held by the Marteval family, it has been the seat of the Hazlerigg family since 1419 when the Marteval heiress married Thomas Hasilrige.
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The site where the Harborough Canal was crossed by the road near Great Bowden was an obvious place for development. Early in the 19c The Britannia Inn was built to serve the canal navvies and waterway workers when the Grand Union canal was opened from Foxton to Market Harborough in 1809. In 1857, Great Bowden Hall was a development and an extension of The Britannia Inn.
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There is a date stone of 1674 on the house but the present building was erected in 1871, partly on the foundations of the earlier building and extended. It is constructed of squared ironstone with limestone dressings and a collyweston slate roof.
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Billesdon Coplow is situated ten miles east of Leicester and a similar distance from the market towns of Uppingham, Oakham and Market Harborough. It is a local landmark, the surviving house built about 700 feet above sea level, high on the south west side of a wooded hill. The Grade II listed house, originally known as The Coplow.
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East Langton Grange, on the west side of the village, was largely rebuilt by the owner, Lt.-Col. J. D. Hignett, in a neo-Georgian style in 1934–5. Parts remain from the previous house which belonged to J. W. Logan (d. 1925), M.P. for the Market Harborough division of Leicestershire, who built the present garden wall and large castellated water-tower fronting upon the street.
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Quenby Hall has an 18th-century park (which originated around 1600) and formal gardens of 2 hectares, including a walled garden. The site is currently (2008) a venue for weddings, corporate events and filming.