Scraptoft Hall

[1] The hall was built in 1723, based on a previous 17th-century house, for the widow of Sir Edward Wigley.

The hall was inherited by Edward Wigley's son James, MP for Leicester, who laid out the ornamental lake and gardens.

[2] The front boundary wall and ornamental iron gates are separately Grade II* listed.

[5] She employed the notable craftsman William Edney to make the gates which remain today.

In 1792 the historian John Throsby visited Scraptoft Hall to make an engraving which was included in his book called “Select views in Leicestershire, from original drawings”.

The 1901 Census records the family living at the Hall with a butler, a footman, a ladies maid, and seven household staff.

He then sold it to Currys Ltd.[12] He retained 500 acres of adjacent land which he continued to farm.

His wife died in 1941 and in 1960 he donated five acres of the land to the Scraptoft Council which was to be called the Edith Cole Memorial Park.