The former Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters was vacated in 2018 after 45 years on site when the team moved alongside the Derbyshire Police HQ at Butterley Hall in Ripley. The 5 acre site consists of a varying range of buildings, from 1980s office blocks, 1950s training & development centre and a large Victorian mansion known as Littleover Old Hall.
The site was sold in 2020 and the majority is now owned by Ivygrove Developments who have a planning application to build 14 detached houses on the land where the current offices and training centres stand.
Littleover Old Hall and its large gardens were recently put back on the market for an eye-watering £3,000,000.
Littleover Old Hall
Starting with the nicest part of the site. Partly modernised bland offices, partly still a very nice Victorian mansion with oak panelling and nice original plasterwork. Considering this is less than ten minutes from my front door, a very enjoyable wander.
Some history:
‘Arts & Craft house of 1898 by Alexander Macpherson of Derby[…] replacing a late Elizabethan house. Spacious interior, galleried hallway and stairs, much light oak panelling and Neo-Jacobean ribbed ceilings.
Sold in 1934 to Harold Walker, a wallpaper manufacturer from London, with nearly ten acres. During WW2 the outbuildings were converted into decontamination centre in anticipation of gas attacks.
Sold again in 1954 to Rolls-Royce as offices for the nuclear program. Sold on by Royce’s in 1971 to County Council as Fire & Rescue Service HQ offices.’
'Orangery'
Upstairs
Couple more bits from the ground floor
CONT.
The site was sold in 2020 and the majority is now owned by Ivygrove Developments who have a planning application to build 14 detached houses on the land where the current offices and training centres stand.
Littleover Old Hall and its large gardens were recently put back on the market for an eye-watering £3,000,000.
Littleover Old Hall
Starting with the nicest part of the site. Partly modernised bland offices, partly still a very nice Victorian mansion with oak panelling and nice original plasterwork. Considering this is less than ten minutes from my front door, a very enjoyable wander.
Some history:
‘Arts & Craft house of 1898 by Alexander Macpherson of Derby[…] replacing a late Elizabethan house. Spacious interior, galleried hallway and stairs, much light oak panelling and Neo-Jacobean ribbed ceilings.
Sold in 1934 to Harold Walker, a wallpaper manufacturer from London, with nearly ten acres. During WW2 the outbuildings were converted into decontamination centre in anticipation of gas attacks.
Sold again in 1954 to Rolls-Royce as offices for the nuclear program. Sold on by Royce’s in 1971 to County Council as Fire & Rescue Service HQ offices.’
'Orangery'
Upstairs
Couple more bits from the ground floor
CONT.
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