Winkburn Hall

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Winkburn Hall is a red-brick country house in the small village of Winkburn, west of Newark, in the heart of rural Nottinghamshire. Built around 1700 for the Burnell family, it belongs to the generation of compact late 17th-century houses inspired by models such as Coleshill or Belton, and is among the few houses in the county listed Grade I. The estate has an ecclesiastical origin: in the Middle Ages the manor was given to the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem, whose memory survives in the dedication of the neighbouring church. After the Dissolution it passed to a family of London merchants, the Burnells, who remained there for nearly three and a half centuries, and then to their heirs through the female line. The house was heightened in the 19th century, which turned its original roof into a third storey, but it retains remarkable interiors: Rococo ceilings, an 18th-century staircase, 17th-century panelling and fireplaces, one of which comes from Welbeck Abbey. It remains a private property, still lived in by descendants of the family.