Bardon Hall is a mid-19th century house in the civil parish of Bardon, Leicestershire. It is a Tudor revival house designed by the architect Robert Lugar for Robert Jacomb Hood, and built in about 1840.[1]
An earlier house, on a moated site within Bardon Park, had been the property of members of the Hood family since the 1620s. The last male member of the Hoods, William, died in 1835 without issue. The estate was left by him to his cousin Robert Jacomb, on condition that Robert assumed the name of Hood.
The original house was demolished circa 1840 by Hood, who described it in his memoirs as "too dilapidated for residence, and the situation was low, damp and unhealthy".[2] In 1864 the whole of the estate was sold to William Percy Herrick of Beaumanor Hall. To improve access Herrick constructed a private carriage road two miles long, leading to the Ashby de la Zouch road.[3]