Goldsborough Hall

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Goldsborough Hall

Goldsborough Hall is a Jacobean stately home located in the village of Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Historic Houses Association. The house itself is a Grade II* listed building. The Hall was built for Sir Richard Hutton (1560–1639) after he acquired the Goldsborough Estate in 1598, and in the 20th century it was home to Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood as her first family home.

The original building still stands and is occupied as a private family home. The Hall and gardens are open to visitors.

History

The house was built from 1598 to 1625 for

Sherburn-in-Elmet
in 1645.

The hall passed to the Wharton family when Sir Richard's daughter, Elizabeth, married the Hon Philip Wharton, nephew of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton. Her sister married Colonel Anthony Byerley of Middridge Grange. Their son Robert Byerley married Elizabeth and Philip's daughter, Mary Wharton in 1695. Robert Byerley was MP for County Durham and represented Knaresborough nine times between 1697 and 1710. He was a soldier and fought at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Captain (later Colonel) Robert Byerley possessed a fine brown horse, the Byerley Turk, which is the eldest founding father to all thoroughbred horses. The origins of the stallion are the subject of much speculation but it is known that the horse was put at stud at Goldsborough Hall and was buried at the Hall in 1706.

As Robert and Mary Byerley's five children all died without issue, the Hall was sold to

Askham Grange
and the estate at Askham Richards.

HRH Princess Mary

The Hall became the first family home of

George and Gerald Lascelles
, and stayed at Goldsborough Hall on many occasions throughout the 1920s.

During the

St Aidan's School
) was stationed at the Hall. The owners of the school, the Boyer family, bought Goldsborough Hall from the Harewood estate in 1951. The rest of the village was sold at auction in 1952, ending 1,000 years of the estate village.

In 1966 the school closed and the Hanson family purchased the Hall and its land, reverting the Hall to a private house. Due to ill health, the Hansons had to sell the hall in 1977. It was sold to a Leeds-based developer, West and Sons, who further developed the Hall and, they, in turn sold the Hall to Mrs Elsie Sharpe-Day, who converted the building into a luxury country-house hotel that never opened.

In 1979 the Hall was acquired by Russell Stansfield Smith, who lived in the house as his family home before converting it into a 60-resident, 40-bedroom nursing home that opened in 1983. The Hall became the flagship of a group of nursing homes called Goldsborough Estates. In 1997

BUPA
acquired Goldsborough Estates and looked at ways to bring the Hall to meet with modern standards in nursing practice. Due to the historic nature of the building, it was considered to be impractical and the Hall closed as a nursing home in May 2003 and was subsequently advertised for sale.

In 2005 the Hall was acquired by the Oglesby family who once more converted it back to a private family home.

Present day

The Hall required a vast amount of restoration and maintenance after being a nursing home for over 20 years and then empty for a further two years. The main state rooms have been refurbished and the hall now offers guest accommodation with 16 bedrooms and suites. An orangery was built in 2016 in order to host private weddings, corporate functions and events.[3]

Gardens and grounds

National Gardens Scheme
.

References

  1. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe Yorkshire: the West Riding 1968 Penguin
  2. ISBN 978-1-105-237539
    . Retrieved 8 May 2021. ... heir and the [Goldsborough] Hall and all of its land passed to his brother, to form part of the then 24,000-acre Harewood estate.
  3. ^ Jacob, Liana (10 May 2023). "The history of Yorkshire's 16th century Goldsborough Hall - the former home of Princess Mary". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  4. ^ Richard Woods (1715–1793) Master of the Pleasure Garden by Fiona Cowell, published by Boydell Press
  5. ^ Thomas White: Redesigning the northern British landscape by Deborah Turnbull and Louise Wickham, published by Windgather Press

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