28TH December, 2017. Humberside large period houses – final one of my list.

Normanby Hall, four miles north of Scunthorpe, was built in the 1820s, again on the site of an earlier mansion. It was built by, as was its predecessor, the family of the Earls of Sheffield. One hundred years previously an ancestor had built Buckingham Palace in London. Post-war Normanby Hall was gifted to the local authority and was developed by Humberside County Council as a public park, across the 300+ acres of parkland, and visitor attraction. Since 1996 it has been managed by North Lincolnshire Council and is a very popular venue for visitors as it includes a professionally restored walled-garden, play facilities, herbaceous borders and lawns, parkland walks, a farming museum and, like at Burton Constable, courtyard facilities in what was the stable-block. The house, with mostly original fixtures and fittings, is usually open to the public.