TIME slows to walking pace in the pretty stone villages that line the wide, shallow valley of the River Welland, which flows gently from its source near Sibbertoft, eight miles from Market Harborough, through the borderlands of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to Stamford in Lincolnshire, before passing eastwards through the fens to the Wash. Here, Stephen King of Market Harborough-based King West (01858 435970) has hit the ground running with the launch onto the market of imposing Horninghold Hall at Horninghold, in the upper Welland Valley, seven miles north-east of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and four miles south-west of Uppingham, Rutland.
Mr King seeks ‘offers in excess of £3.95 million’ for the Hall, previously known as Horninghold House, which, according to Pevsner, was converted in the 1880s from a 17th-century farmhouse by…
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Country Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 26, 2025