Croxall Hall is a restored and extended 16th century manor house

Manor house

A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

 situated at Croxall, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

 (close to the southeastern border with Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

 and historically part of it). It is a Grade II* listed building.

The manor of Croxall was owned by the Derbyshire family of Curzon

Kedleston Hall

Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy...

 and they rebuilt the old manor house in the late 16th century. It was a substantial property, taxed in 1662 for Hearth Tax purposes as having sixteen hearths. The property passed to the Sackville family following the marriage of Mary Curzon, daughter and heiress of the last male Curzon of her branch of the family, to Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset

Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset

Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset KG was the son of Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset and the brother and heir of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset.-Life:...

.

In about 1779 the manor was sold by John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset

John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset

John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was the only son of Lord John Philip Sackville, second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He succeeded to the dukedom in 1769 on the death of his uncle, Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset...

 to John Prinsep

John Prinsep

John Prinsep was born the son of a vicar in rural Oxfordshire, England, with limited horizons for advancement. He joined the East India Company as a cadet, travelling to Bombay, and was soon engaged in mercantile pursuits, eventually becoming the earliest British merchant to plant indigo, and...

 a wealthy East India merchant and later Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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. His son Thomas Prinsep, (High Sheriff of Derbyshire

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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 in 1802), left the 1450 acres (586.8 ha) estate to his nephew Thomas Levett

Levett

Levett is an Anglo-Norman territorial surname deriving from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, now Jonquerets-de-Livet, in Eure, Normandy. Ancestors of the earliest Levett family in England, the de Livets were lords of the village of Livet, and undertenants of the de Ferrers, among the most powerful of...

 of Wychnor Hall

Wychnor Hall

Wychnor Hall is an early 18th century country house near Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. Formerly owned by the Levett family, descendants of Theophilus Levett, Steward of the city of Lichfield in the early eighteenth century, the hall has been converted to a Country Club. It is a Grade II listed...

 who thereupon changed his name to Thomas Levett-Prinsep

Thomas Levett-Prinsep

Thomas Levett-Prinsep , born Thomas Levett at Wychnor Park in Staffordshire, was a Derbyshire JP, member of the Tamworth Board of Guardians, landowner and cattle breeder in Derbyshire who took on the additional name of Prinsep upon inheriting his uncle's holding of Croxall Hall.Thomas Levett was...

. The property was damaged by fire in 1868, but was subsequently restored and extended by architect Joseph Potter of Lichfield

Lichfield

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. The Levett-Prinsep family later moved to Devon

Devon

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and sold the Croxall estate.

The house was again fire damaged in 1942 and the west wing was demolished.