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 and owned most of the large estates locally - Sir Charles Ingilby was a colonel in the army of Charles II and a barrister and Baron of the Irish Exchequer. The house remained one of the Ingilby family homes for almost 200 years before being sold around the time of the Second World War.

The house was signifcantly extend from the early Georgian house with a large Victorian wing added in the 1860’s. Several other smaller extensions where added by later family members.

Around the 1930’s the house became a local Guest House, and has since slowly developed into the well respected local Hotel and Restaurant seen today.

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.