Finedon Hall

[1] The core of the house is 17th or 18th century, and was extensively remodelled by William Harcourt Isham Mackworth Dolben (1806–1872).

Both his heirs were drowned; the elder son William Digby Mackworth Dolben died whilst serving aboard HMS Volta in 1863 and the younger, the noted poet Digby Mackworth Dolben, died aged seventeen while swimming in the River Welland, near South Luffenham in Rutland in 1867.

From 1936 the hall was used by the Free French as a rehabilitation centre for allied troops, and was visited on at least one occasion by Charles de Gaulle.

[7] The facility was run by Col. Pierre Mallinger, who subsequently bought the hall and used it as a centre to conduct research into tropical diseases.

St Clair Wade's scheme for developing Finedon was not realised, and by the time of his death, the condition of the house had become parlous.