Nevill Holt Estate
About
Five places, each with its own character.
Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, the Rosedale and Westerdale Estate in the North York Moors, an apartment in Zürs on the Arlberg, two villas on Mustique, and two houses in France. Moorland, valley, mountain and sea.
The five
Different landscapes, different reasons to go.
Pick the place first. Everything that happens there — houses, weddings, walking, shooting — sits under it.
Nevill Holt
Leicestershire
The home estate. A 13th-century hall above the Welland Valley, an opera theatre in the old stable yard, gardens by Rupert Golby, and eight houses to stay in — an hour from St Pancras.
4 things to do →Rosedale and Westerdale
North Yorkshire
Two dales of the North York Moors National Park, the cottages that go with them, and the six-mile Goldsworthy walk that runs up Northdale.
3 things to do →Zürs, Austria
Arlberg
An apartment on the Arlberg — four bedrooms, four balconies and a fireplace, standing right beside the Zürser See lift.
2 things to do →Mustique
St Vincent & the Grenadines
Two villas on a private Caribbean island — six bedrooms at Blackstone, five at Full Moon, each with its own staff of five.
2 things to do →France
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence
Two houses at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, at the foot of the Alpilles. Details coming soon.
1 things to do →Nevill Holt, Leicestershire
The arts have been backed here since the thirteenth century.
Nevill Holt has passed from the Kirkby and Nevill families to the Cunards, and now to David Ross, who spent twelve years on its restoration. Every one of them championed the arts. That is the through-line, and it still is.
Gardens
Ten acres, designed by Rupert Golby.
The private gardens wrap the hall and the theatre, with panoramic views across three counties, a walled kitchen garden and an orchard. Modern British sculpture stands through the grounds.
The Hall
A medieval manor made Renaissance, and restored again.
The origins are 13th century. Under the Montague family the medieval manor was replaced by a Renaissance mansion — which is where the elaborate facades and the intricate woodwork come from, and where the formal gardens took their Italian cue.
