The House from an 1829 engraving
House & Family History: Lowesby is an early 18th century brick house with a 17th century core. The House is two stories with a nine-bay Entrance Facade and 11 bays on the Garden Facade. The Entrance Hall had a ceiling painting attributed to Verrio that was destroyed in a 1980 fire. Lutyens lengthened one of the wings and laid out the garden, circa 1912. Lowesby is a noted fox-hunting seat in the heart of the Quorn Country. The poem "Lowesby Hall" by the Victorian English foxhunting MP William Bromley Davenport (1821–84) was a parody on Alfred Tennyson's 1835 poem "Locksley Hall."
Architect: Edwin Landseer Lutyens
Date: Circa 1912John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. I, p. 62, 1852.
Country Life: XXXVII, 626, 1915.
Title: Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, The
Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus
Year Published: 1973
Reference: pg. 179
Publisher: London: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140710183
Book Type: Hardback
Title: Blenheim Revisited: The Spencer-Churchills and their Palace
Author: Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh
Year Published: 1985
Reference: pg. 171
Publisher: New York: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 0825302978
Book Type: Hardback
House Listed: Grade II*
Park Listed: Grade II
Past Seat / Home of: Richard Wollaston, 17th century. Fowke family, 19th century. Thomas Brassey, early 20th century. Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Bt., 20th century.
Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust
Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No