Former country house, now preparatory school and 3 archways. dated about 1730 and extended in about 1830. Substantially altered and extended in 1903-5 by A. N. Prentice, architect. The original five bay house had slightly projecting two bay wings added in the 19th century, altered 1903, and a further projecting block to the right added in 1903. The interior was entirely remade in 1905 but in a 18th century style. Attached to the rear service block is a gateway with Tudor arch, set in rectangular hood. Two other similar archways also to the rear are dated 1876 and 1906. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {1} Village and Hall belong to the Johnson family, descendants of Archdeacon Robert Johnson, founder of Oakham and Uppingham schools, sixteenth century Archdeacon of Leicester. The Hall is now a flourishing prep-school, but in origin is a mid-eigtheenth century house, with harmonious additions by the Edwardian architect A. N. Prentice (1903), who built Stenigot House a few years later. The gardens were laid out by Thomas Mawson who designed the gardens at Thornton Curtis. Even as a school it makes a delightful Georgian/Edwardian ensemble. {2} The core, just five bays to east and west, with its moulded window surrounds looks early 18th century, though it is said to date from 1752-56. Nothing Goergian remains inside. Extensive additions, also owing more to the early than to the mid 18th century, were made in 1903-05 by A. N. Prentice, who made the building H-plan and added a new range to the east. At the same time the gardens were laid out by Thomas Mawson, formal around the house, with a landscaped garden to the north-west. The Hall is now a school and the stables were converted into a music school in 1979 by Rex Critchlow. Along the western side of the house to the entrance, i.e. along the drive, a vista of pseudo-Jacobean arches, dated in order 1876, 1830 and 1906. {3}