24th November, 2017. Humberside large period houses (cont.).

Thorpe Hall in the village of Rudston, west of Bridlington, (see above) is the product of various building schemes across 200 years from the late 17th century. It is (I think) sometimes open to the public but beyond the house are extensive facilities for camping/caravanning, horse riding etc.

In his detailed description of Thorpe Hall David Neave (s.p.b.) references a ‘delightful series of Regency buildings’ to be seen in the grounds, these including a dairy, game larder, billiard room and orangery, the last of which may be compared with the detached orangery at Burton Constable.

Rudston village is famous for many things including a pre-historic monolith standing in the churchyard and for a local farmhouse having been the birthplace and childhood home of the author Winifred Holtby who served in the Great War and died prematurely in the 1930s before seeing her best known novel South Riding in print. A remarkable woman with radical (for her time) political and social views.