Swithland Hall

The present Swithland Hall was built for George John Danvers-Butler, later Earl of Lanesborough.

Potter recorded in his History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest (1842):The residence of the owners of Swithland was, till the present generation, situated near the Church.

It was a considerable pile, but so surrounded on all sides, even in front, by stables, dovecotes and high walls, and so close to the public road, that the present proprietor has judiciously pulled it down, and erected on a higher ground a mansion more suited to the taste of the age.

It consists of a central block and two wings in a restrained neo-classical style with banded rustication to the ground floor.

The entrance front has one-storey porch with four paired fluted Doric columns up four stone steps.