Ashby Folville Manor

Ashby Folville Manor
Ashby Folville Manor
	Folville Street, looking to the Church of St Mary, Ashby Folville The estate boundary wall of Ashby Folville Manor is on the left.
General information
Type	House
Architectural style	Neo-Tudor
Town or city	Ashby Folville
Country	United Kingdom
Current tenants	Leicester property developer Jamie Lewis
Completed	Late 19th-century
Renovated	1891-1893
Owner	Jamie Lewis

Ashby Folville Manor is a late 19th-century house in Neo-Tudor style in the village of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. The house was substantially rebuilt in 1891-1893 by the architect John Ely of Manchester after a fire.^[1]

A camp for displaced people from Poland was established in a former US Army base in the grounds after World War II. The resettlement camp was occupied from 1948 until 1965.^[2]

From 2004 - 2016 it was the home of Rosemary Conley.^[3]

Notes and references[edit]

^ Pevsner, p. 56
^ "Polish reunion is resounding success", Melton Times 14 Sept 2010
^ "Conley's concert raises money for good causes" Leicester Mercury, 29 Aug 2011

Sources[edit]

Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)

52°41′59″N 0°57′16″W / 52.6997°N 0.9544°W / 52.6997; -0.9544

[1] Pevsner, p. 56

[2] "Polish reunion is resounding success", Melton Times 14 Sept 2010

[3] "Conley's concert raises money for good causes" Leicester Mercury, 29 Aug 2011

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