Was lucky enough to spend four days here at this wonderful house for my 50th birthday. North Lees Hall, standing on a sweeping hillside beneath Stanage Edge, is set amidst some of the most spectacular scenery of the Peak National Park. The lonely romaticism of the hall and the legends of its erstwhile occupants, the Eyre family, attracted many writers - most famously Charlotte Bronte - through whom it became immortalised as "Thornfield Hall" in Jane Eyre. The Elizabethan tower house, built of coursed rubble gritstone, was built for William Jessop in the early 1590s.

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