From the early 18th century onwards the southern Yorkshire Wolds were a preferred locality for rich Hull merchants and businessmen to buy land and have built a country residence and grounds reflecting their wealth and status and, often, taking advantage of the views offered by the rolling landscape compared with the level ground of the Hull valley. Many such houses on the lower dip slope of the Wolds originally had extensive grounds but these were gradually partitioned to building blocks for more modest country retreats with further infill in the mid and late 20th century for modern outer-suburban properties and estates (a study in itself).
Although probably built on the site of an earlier property Brantingham Thorpe (alternative spelling) was built mostly in the 1830s, the image above being a photo, probably late 19th century, showing the once formal gardens and grand terracing. It was built by a member of the Sykes Family from Sledmere Hall. It does (presumably), and certainly would have, commanded a majestic panoramic view to the south across the full extent of the middle and upper Humber Estuary and beyond into Lincolnshire.
The Hall is shielded from view from the very busy A63 road passing further down the valley-side created by the inter-glacial predecessor of the Humber Estuary by which the Wolds escarpment was bisected.