Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
Houghton Hall, Sancton, near Market Weighton, is a Grade I listed[1] Georgian country mansion in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, set in an estate of 7,800 acres (32 km2). Located on the estate is the village of Sancton and the vestigial remains of the ancient hamlet of Houghton. It was built c. 1765–8 by Philip Langdale (d. 1815) to the designs of Thomas Atkinson and underwent minor remodelling in 1960 by Francis Johnson. It is built in pink brick with stone dressing and slate roof, with a three-storey, 5-bay main block.[2]
The Roman Catholic parish of Market Weighton was founded from the domestic chapel of the Langdale family at Houghton Hall. The chapel, built in 1829, was demolished in 1957. The Vale of York Polo Club was formerly located on the Houghton Hall Estate.
Descent
de Houghton
Sir Thomas de Houghton was the last in the male line of his family seated at the manor.[citation needed] His daughter and heiress, Helen de Houghton, brought the manor to her husband Patrick II de Langdale.
Langdale
The de Langdale
The estate at Houghton descended through the senior branch of the Langdale family from Anthony Langdale until a lack of male succession caused it to pass sideways to a cousin Peter Langdale (d. 1617) of Pighill[8] Hall, Molescroft,[9] near Beverley in Yorkshire, which he had purchased in 1606.[10] His son was
Stourton (Langdale)
On the death of Philip Langdale in 1815, the estate passed under his will to his relative, the Hon.
On Philip's death in 1950, Houghton passed to his eldest daughter Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (1898 – June 1995), then the wife of Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (1883–1962), from whom she was divorced in 1955 and re-married in 1956 to Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam (1904–1979).[17] Her second husband's home, Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, is the largest private residence in England, and with his second seat of Milton Hall, Peterborough, the largest house in Cambridgeshire, also at her disposal, she may have felt little need to retain Houghton for her own use.
Watson
Joyce Langdale had no male progeny and gave Houghton to her nephew
References
- ^ Historic England. "Houghton Hall (1160656)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ^ "Houghton Hall, Sancton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ Robson, Thomas, The British Herald
- ^ Burke, John, General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland[1]
- ^ Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance. Oxford University.
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- ^ Burke
- ^ The Langdales lived in the area to the west of Beverley since at least the fourteenth century, when Patrick de Langdale married Elena Houghton and inherited through her estates in Houghton and Etton."University Archives". University of Hull. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ Burke, John, General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland[2]
- ^ Baggs, A. P.; Brown, L. M.; Forster, G. C. F.; Hall, I.; Horrox, R. E.; Kent, G. H. R.; Neave, D. (1989). "Outlying townships: Molescroft". In Allison, K. J. (ed.). A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 6, the Borough and Liberties of Beverley. London. pp. 281–291.
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- ^ "Langdale, Marmaduke".
- ^ Whellan, T.; Sheehan, J. J. (1867). History and Topography of the City of York and the East Riding of Yorkshire, Volume II. John Green, Beverley. p. 392.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.807, Baron Mowbray
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.810
- ^ 'Langdale Family' in National Archives Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.739, Baron Manton
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, pp.452, 453
- "Papers of the Langdale Family of Houghton Hall and Holme on Spalding Moor". The National Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
External links
- Media related to Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1160656)". National Heritage List for England.