Sysonby Knoll was built as a country house in 1911 by the Thurman family of Riverside Farm, Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. There have been a succession of owners, the most recent being the Booth family, who purhased the house in 1965 and converted it into a hotel.
The hotel has 30 en-suite bedrooms and a locally well respected restaurant, serving lunches and evening meals as well as Sunday Lunch.
Various local groups meet at the hotel including the Melton Mowbray Rotary Club (Monday lunchtimes).
Sysonby was a hamlet just outside Melton Mowbray, and the house is close to the site of the settlement, which has now disappeared.
Famous quotes containing the word knoll:
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)