Duffield Hall

[1] The manor of Duffield was granted by King Charles I to the Newton family who built a new mansion house there in the 1620s.

In the early 19th century he left the property to his kinsman Thomas Porter Bonell whose daughter married Sir Charles H Colville.

After Colville's death, the house was sold to John Bell Crompton of Milford (High Sheriff in 1847) a Banker of Irongate, Derby.

Smith extensively restored and improved the house creating the present mansion of three storeys and five gabled bays.

[3] The school closed in 1970 and in 1977 the property was acquired by the Derbyshire Building Society for whom it was restored and extended by architects George Grey and Partners.

Duffield Hall c 1829-40s