I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:
Land owner permission requirements unknown.
Park on slip road just outside site boundary (signposted Annesley Old Church), take off from same position as parking.
Annesley Hall is a Grade II listed country house near Annesley in Nottinghamshire and the ancestral home of the Chaworth-Musters family. The 13th-century park, 17th-century terraces and 19th-century pleasure gardens and walled gardens of the hall are Grade II listed.
The Hall dates from the mid-13th century and was the home of the Annesley family, passing to the Chaworth family when Alice, heiress to the Manor of Annesley, married George Chaworth, third son of Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wiverton, in the 15th century. The Chaworth family were to possess the estate for the next 350 years. It was significantly enlarged and improved by Patrick Chaworth, 3rd Viscount Chaworth, in the 17th century when damage to his family seat at Wiverton obliged him to move to Annesley.
Mary Chaworth, who lived at the Hall, was the boyhood lover of the poet Lord Byron, who lived at nearby Newstead Abbey. The uncle of the poet Byron had killed William Chaworth in a duel at the Star and Garter tavern in Pall Mall, London after a meeting of the “Nottinghamshire Club” that met there every month. Mary Chaworth eventually married John Musters of Colwick Hall in 1805. The Chaworth-Musters family became one of the most powerful families in Nottinghamshire. John Chaworth-Musters was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1864–65. Structural alterations to the hall took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the addition of a service wing c.1880.
Annesley Lodge, the former gatehouse to the hall, is also grade II listed.
20th and 21st century
It remained in the hands of the Chaworth-Musters family until sold by Major Robert Patricius Chaworth-Musters in 1972. The new purchasers carried out extensive internal alterations and removed many of the 17th century fittings.
The hall suffered a fire in 1997 which caused damage to the structure and it has not been lived in since. The hall is now in private ownership, in very poor condition and not open to the public. English Heritage have listed the building on the ‘Buildings at Risk Register’ as high vulnerability and deteriorating.
Two of the three floors at the hall were severely damaged in a fire on 16 May 2015.
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 05/01/2024. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.
