House History

The Traddock is a Georgian country house built around the 1740’s by the Ingilby family, probably by Columbus Ingilby. The Ingilby family were very influential locally and had owned most of the manors and assocaited land since the early 1500's. The Traddock remained one of the Ingilby family homes for almost 200 years before being sold around the 1930’s.

The house was significantly extend from the early Georgian house with a large Victorian wing added in the 1860’s and several other smaller extensions not long after.

Around the 1930’s the house became a small hotel and guest house, and has since slowly developed into the well respected local Hotel and Restaurant seen today. The house is presently Grade 2 listed and is an good example of both Georgian and Victoria engineering and building styles.

 

What is a Traddock?

The house when built was named ”The Traddock”, a name derived from the field the house was built on. The field was used and known locally as ’the trading paddock’, and at some unknown point it became shortened to ”The Traddock”. Records indicate that local farmers held regular horse and cattle trading markets here, often swelled with travellers heading north or south on the adjacent main road, now the A65.