Hare Hall

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Coordinates: 51°34′58″N, 0°12′12″E

Hare Hall is a house and grounds located in Gidea Park in East London.

It was built between 1768 and 1769 as a country house for the Wallinger family and since 1921 has housed the Royal Liberty School.

Being a Palladian mansion built by John A. Wallinger to designs by James Paine the main north front is of five bays, with a rusticated basement storey, above which the two upper storeys are unified by a giant portico and pilasters at the angles. Attached to the south front by short corridors there were pavilions containing service rooms. The principle rooms were on the first floor, and were approached by a central staircase with curved ends and an iron balustrade. The main front was of Portland stone, but the south front was of red brick, and in 1896 the house was considerably enlarged on that side by filling in the space between the pavilions.