Radbourne Hall is an 18th century country house, the home of the Chandos-Pole family, situated at Radbourne, Derbyshire

Radbourne, Derbyshire

Radbourne is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire, a few miles west of Derby. Of interest is St Andrew's church and Radbourne Hall...

. It is a Grade I listed building.

The Manor of Radbourne was held by the Chandos family from the time of the Norman Conquest. On the death of Sir John Chandos

John Chandos

Sir John Chandos, Viscount of Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin, Constable of Aquitaine, Seneschal of Poitou, KG was a medieval English knight who hailed from Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Chandos was a close friend of Edward, the Black Prince and a founding member and 19th Knight of the Order of the...

 in 1369 it passed to his niece who married Sir Peter de la Pole of Newborough, Staffordshire

Newborough, Staffordshire

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. The Pole Baronets

Pole Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Pole, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...

 of Wolverton, Hampshire are descendants of this family.

The present house was built in about 1739 for his descendant German Pole, probably by architect William Smith the Younger The red brick construction has two storeys and a basement. The entrance front has seven bays, the central three of which slightly project and have a pediment bearing the Pole family arms. Several members of the Pole family served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire

High Sheriff of Derbyshire

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In 1807 Edward Sacheverell Pole, adopted by sign manual, the additional surname of Chandos to commemorate his descent from Sir John Chandos. Since then the family surname has been Chandos-Pole. Edward Sacherevell Chandos-Pole, High Sheriff

High Sheriff

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 in 1827 was succeeded in that office by his son and namesake. He extended and modernised the property in 1865.

A succession of Poles and Chandos-Poles were rectors of St. Andrews Church in Radbourne: 1715, Samuel Pole; 1758, John le Hunt, whose patron was German Pole; 1790, Edward Pole, whose patron was Sacheverell Pole; 1824, H. Reginald Chandos-Pole, whose patron was Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole. Finally, in August 1866 William Chandos-Pole became vicar, whose patrons were John Yarde Buller, Edward 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...

 and Rev. William Chandos-Pole.

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin

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lived in the house briefly, following his marriage in 1781 to Elizabeth Pole.