Local List of Heritage Assets, 2022 Update

Gate Piers to Former Bitteswell Hall, Hall Lane, Bitteswell

Ref: Bit/001

Construction Date: 1838

Architect: TBC

Original Use: Gate Piers

Current Use: Gate Piers

Condition: Good

Parish: Bitteswell with Bittesby

Ward: Ullesthorpe

Reason for Inclusion

Historic Interest

Two sets of gate piers located either side of Hall Lane at the entrance to the former Bitteswell Hall. The hall was built in 1838. It was situated in a timbered park with gardens and pleasure grounds with ornamental water, fox covert, plantations and farmland in the parishes of Bitteswell and Lutterworth. The October 1876 sales particulars for the estate marketed the mansion as 'a hunting seat or residence for a nobleman or gentleman'. The gates provided access to the mansion via a carriage drive through the timbered parkland. Following the sale of the estate in 1926 the hall was demolished in 1928.

Associative interest

Links to the farming history of Bitteswell and Lutterworth and to the hunting history of Leicestershire.