14th December, 2017. Humberside large period houses – south bank (cont.).

Elsham Hall (see above) is in the village of Elsham, the most southerly of the six ‘Low Villages’ (South Ferriby, Horkstow, Saxby All Saints, Bonby, Worlaby and Elsham) all of which stand along the near the base of the scarp slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds along the spring-line. Saxby All Saints has a large Hall in private grounds with some evidence of emparking across the Vale of Ancholme remaining. South of Elsham is the ‘Barnetby Gap’ in the Wolds, beyond this are a further series of spring-line villages south to Caistor.

Elsham Hall was expanded in the 18th century on the site of an earlier property. Various changes to the structure in the 19th century and again in the 20th century, when the Hall and grounds were bought by the Elwes family in the 1930s, have quite radically changed the Georgian building. The five-bat two-storey property was built of brick, freestone and Westmorland slate (roof). The Hall is private to the family but the grounds are much promoted and usually open to the public.

Like the Halls at Sledmere and Burton Constable, and some others considered, Elsham Hall includes a private Roman Catholic chapel.