Twycross, Curzon Arms Hotel c.1955
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In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn Assheton Curzon probably hovered over the site of Gopsal Park, the splendid house he inherited in 1773, unforgivably demolished in 1951. The architect was a local man, John Westley (1702-69), and the contract was completed by William and David Hiorns of Warwick. Almost opposite to the entrance to Gopsal Park stands the Curzon Arms, an altered late 18th-century brick and tile double-pile house. Atkinson of Aston, Birmingham, founded in 1855, did not emblazon the building with their logo. In 1959, the family sold out to Mitchells & Butler, a part of the giant Bass empire.
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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