Bardon Hall is a mid-19th century house in the civil parish of Bardon, Leicestershire. It is a Tudor revival house designed by the architect Robert Lugar

Robert Lugar

Robert Lugar , was an English architect and engineer in the Industrial Revolution.Although born in Colchester, England, Lugar carried out much of his most important work in Scotland and Wales, where he was employed by several leading industrialists to design grand houses such as Balloch Castle and...

 for Robert Jacomb Hood, and built in about 1840.

An earlier house, on a moated site within Bardon Park, had been the property of members of the Hood family since the 1620s. The last male member of the Hoods, William, died in 1835 without issue. The estate was left by him to his cousin Robert Jacomb, on condition that Robert assumed the name of Hood.

The original house was demolished circa 1840 by Hood, who described it in his memoirs as "too dilapidated for residence, and the situation was low, damp and unhealthy". In 1864 the whole of the estate was sold to William Percy Herrick of Beaumanor Hall

Beaumanor Hall

Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire in the United Kingdom. It was built in 1845-7 by architect William Railton in Elizabethan style for the Herrick family. and is a Grade...

. To improve access Herrick constructed a private carriage road two miles long, leading to the Ashby de la Zouch road.