November 2017

Across the southern part of the ‘High Wolds’ (northern half of Yorkshire Wolds) four large period house all stand on roughly the same latitude, Sledmere House (see above), Thorpe Hall, Rudston, Boynton Hall and Sewerby Hall, the middle two standing in the ‘great valley’ of the Gypsey Race which has carved a west-east valley across […]

The northern part of the plain of Holderness has a lower density of period houses than the southern and central parts already covered (this excluding Burton Agnes Hall, s.p.b.). This is related somewhat to the fact that the ‘carr-lands’ (riverine alluvium soils) of north Holderness were less fertile and more problematic to drain than the estuarine

The above image of the south-facing side of Rise Hall in central Holderness is dated to about 1820, that is soon after it was built. This large but somewhat plain property was built of the site on the site of medieval/early modern predecessors, the west facing front being the principal façade (shown above in shadow). Rise

Grimston Garth (no picture available), now close to the boulder clay cliff-top in south/central Holderness is described by David Neave (s.p.b.) as ‘the most charming of Georgian Gothic houses’ (p.445). Built in the 1780s as a ‘summer residence’ for a large landowning family of the Yorkshire Wolds it is, like the properties in Winestead (s.p.b.)

Until its demolition in 1936 Winestead Hall (also known as Red Hall, see picture) was a fine example of early Georgian architecture, a classical centre-entrance three-storey block. It was commissioned by the Hildyard family in the 1720s. The stable bock survives (the central clock tower just visible to the right of the house), this dated

Being three-storey and largely brick-built (freestone wall quoins) Burton Agnes Hall (see above, south facing front elevation) shares many features with Burton Constable. Even the ground-plan is similar although on a more domestic, less expansive scale. Largely built in the early 1600s Burton Agnes Hall is a classic example of grand Jacobean architecture (James I, the