Red Hall

The Red Hall was built in 1605 in Elizabethan style, for Gilbert Fisher, a grocer from London, who wished to live in the country. The architect is unknown, however, it has been suggested that it was John Thorpe. It was built from locally made bricks, and featured significant gabling. It proved so expensive to build that Fisher died in debt, but his ancestors continued to live there for nearly a century. His grandson, also called Gilbert, handed the house over to trustees due to excessive debts, and it was sold to Richard Dixon, who died in 1721, leaving it to his wife Barbara, who sold it two years later to Richard Warwick. John Digby, born 1707, married Richard's daughter Elizabeth, which…

The Red Hall was built in 1605 in Elizabethan style, for Gilbert Fisher, a grocer from London, who wished to live in the country. The architect is unknown, however, it has been suggested that it was John Thorpe. It was built from locally-made bricks, and featured significant gabling. It proved so expensive to build that Fisher died in debt, but his ancestors continued to live there for nearly a century. His grandson, also called Gilbert, handed the house over to trustees due to excessive debts, and it was sold to Richard Dixon, who died in 1721, leaving it to his wife Barbara, who sold it two years later to Richard Warwick. John Digby, born 1707, married Richard's daughter Elizabeth, which…

There was a disproven theory that the house was used by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators during the Gunpowder Plot. In 1996, it was featured in the television programme The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, with filming taking place over three days in May of that year.