Author name: Richard Clarke

Sewerby Hall and Boynton Hall (s.p.b.s) are both Grade 1 ‘listed buildings’, some of the other large period houses considered recently are also Grade 1 although some are Grade 2*. The ‘listing’ of historic buildings is part of the responsibilities of the government agency Historic England. There are only three levels of listing; grade 1 (most […]

Sewerby Hall, an eight bay, three-storey Georgian brick-built house with panoramic views of the North Sea and standing above the rising chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head, is the jewel in the crown of the East Riding’s large period houses. The bulk of the house seen today was built in the early 18th century, the bow-fronted wings

Boynton Hall, just a few miles west of Bridlington, has a Grade 1 listing, the relevant text describing its exterior as ‘red brick with burnt brick diaper work and stone dressings, ashlar and slate roof’. The original core of the house seen above was a late-Tudor H plan house on the same site as a demolished

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

Across the southern part of the ‘High Wolds’ (northern half of Yorkshire Wolds) four large period house all stand on roughly the same latitude, Sledmere House (see above), Thorpe Hall, Rudston, Boynton Hall and Sewerby Hall, the middle two standing in the ‘great valley’ of the Gypsey Race which has carved a west-east valley across

The northern part of the plain of Holderness has a lower density of period houses than the southern and central parts already covered (this excluding Burton Agnes Hall, s.p.b.). This is related somewhat to the fact that the ‘carr-lands’ (riverine alluvium soils) of north Holderness were less fertile and more problematic to drain than the estuarine