A view of Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire

Barlborough was built in 1583-4 for Francis Rodes, probably by Robert Smythson, perhaps the most distinguished architect of Elizabethan 'prodigy' houses. It bears a striking similarity to Heath Old Hall, Yorkshire, which was demolished in 1961. Barlborough was for many years the seat of the Locker-Lampson family, and was captured as 'the house next door' in Osbert Sitwell's The Scarlet Tree. It survives, little altered, as a school.