An ancient building known as Kirkby Old Hall ... The present building is early C17, but has traces of a much earlier date, and was at one time known as Sacheverall Hall. William Sacheverall married Agnes, daughter of Richard de Kirkby, early in C15. Hall passed to Sir Richard Coke of Trusley, who had married Mary Sacheverall in 1574. (1)

Called Pinxton Hall, owned by the Coke family since time of Edward III. (2)

Kirkby Old Hall is now divided into 3 tenements. It has been scheduled but as the tenancies are vacated it will probably be left to become a ruin as part is already derelict. (3)

Detailed description. (4)

The Hall was rebuilt as a timber-framed house on 3 sides of a small courtyard in the Elizabethan period. The walls were largely cased in brick and the windows renewed in stone in the C17. Inside, the walls were panelled in dark oak. A fine oak Jacobean chimneypiece was later removed to Brookhill Hall, Pinxton, Derbys. The Coke family retained possession of Kirkby Old Hall until C20. RCHME recorded the house in 1964, by which time it had lain abandoned and derelict for some time. The Hall was demolished soon afterwards. (6)

Sir Richard Kaye in a memorandum relating to value and sales of landed estates in Notts. gives a list of marriages under the heading of:- "Cokes of Kirkby Old Hall called Pinxton Hall". (7)

The Hall consists of a main west block with wings to the east on the north and south. It is mainly built of brick, modern and 'Tudor', with patches of stonework in random rubble or irregularly coursed. The roof is stone-tiled and the windows are mainly modern mullioned insertions. Two gables on the west front, and one on the W. end of the S. wing are timber-framed, together with the upper storey of the north wing. This is constructed with close vertical timbers having an infilling of stucco-faced lath & plaster. Part of this north wing is derelict and the upper storey of the west block is dilapidated. A chimney stack on the south is built in thin 'Tudor' brick with stone quoining and other external stacks are built of stone or modern brick. The main fabric may be accepted as being of 17th c. date as indicated by Auth.2 with later additions, but no definite evidence of an earlier building was seen. (4)

This building has now been demolished. (8)

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

OS card, Parish file

OS, 1914-38, 6in 1914-38 (Map). SNT1061.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> Thoroton Society, 1939, TTS, p 74 (Published document). SNT356.

<2> Throsby J, 1790, Thoroton's History of Notts Vol 2, p 298 (Published document). SNT1346.

<3> Hardy Miss, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT743.

<4> Woodhouse WC, 1959, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1437.

<5> OS, 1917, 1:2500, County Series 1917 (Map). SNT1026.

Other Refs: 27/14

<6> Jones PE, 2006, Lost Houses of Nottinghamshire, p 35 (Monograph). SNT1893.

<7> Richard Kaye, 1770, MS Notes on Kirkby in Ashfield (Published document). SNT6145.

<8> Colquhoun FD, 1974, Pers Comms (Personal comment). SNT6141.