The House
In 1847 Burleigh Hall was described as being a mile from Garendon Park, and located in the middle of parkland containing deer. At this time the hall was owned by Miss Julia Tate who John Sherburne described as having selected a collection of paintings with much taste and placed her mark upon the property with it showing the handiwork and judicious mind of woman.
The Hall was probably constructed in the second half of the seventeenth century, likely to be linked to the arrival of the Jesson family. Given a Georgian appearance around a century later, it was described as having an ornate pedimented facade faced eastwards towards the town, and plainer one, westwards towards Charnwood Forest at the time of its demolition.
Having been an estate of around 374 acres (1.51 km2) in 1831 it had fallen to around 90 acres (360,000 m2) in 1958 when it was sold to the College, being then added to the Campus forming the area west of the existing playing field site.
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