There was a small Elizabethan hall in brick, built by the Scroops as a dower house to Langar, of which there are no remains. The Howes … dismantled the place. The late Thomas Huskinson restored the place, built the main block of the house [and] the stone gateway and walls. Sir Francis Ley built the library wing and kitchen. (1)
Scroops Hall shown at or near Epperstone Manor on old map. (2)
The present fabric of Epperstone Manor is almost entirely C19/C20 incorporating an earlier house in the NE corner. Adjacent to the C17 dovecote is a buttressed gateway of red sandstone with a perpendicular 4 centred arch surmounted by a decorative dripstone inscribed with a Lombardic "H" - refers to Howes family. (4)
House. Mid C18, 1866, 1876 and 1893. Some of the panelling [in the] entrance hall [is] C17. (5)
Epperstone Manor is the successor to a series of earlier dwellings which probably stood on or close to the site. In its present form it contains the substantial remains of a late C17 or early C18 double-pile house which was considerably altered and extended in 1867 and again in about 1894. It also contains reset panelling and fireplaces of about 1600, some reset C18 fireplaces, and a great deal of high-quality decorative detail dating from the two major C19 building campaigns. Subsequent alteration has been limited and chiefly cosmetic in character. (6)
See M5454 for dovecote, L1832 for nearby moat.

Listed buildings slides, 1 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

--/06/82, Epperstone Manor (Plan). SNT3430.

16/10/90, Epperstone Manor (Plan). SNT3428.

<1> Thoroton Society, 1908, TTS, p 23 (Published document). SNT335.

<2> Thoroton Society, 1916, TTS, pp 125-30 (Published document). SNT342.

<3> Throsby J, 1796, Thoroton's History of Notts Vol 3, pp 36-40 (Published document). SNT1347.

<4> Colquhoun FD, 1960, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT575.

<5> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<6> Colin Briden, 2001, The Manor House, Epperstone: An appraisal of the Historic Buildings and Inventory of Historic features (Unpublished document). SNT4865.