The above image of the south-facing side of Rise Hall in central Holderness is dated to about 1820, that is soon after it was built. This large but somewhat plain property was built of the site on the site of medieval/early modern predecessors, the west facing front being the principal façade (shown above in shadow). Rise […]

Grimston Garth (no picture available), now close to the boulder clay cliff-top in south/central Holderness is described by David Neave (s.p.b.) as ‘the most charming of Georgian Gothic houses’ (p.445). Built in the 1780s as a ‘summer residence’ for a large landowning family of the Yorkshire Wolds it is, like the properties in Winestead (s.p.b.)

Until its demolition in 1936 Winestead Hall (also known as Red Hall, see picture) was a fine example of early Georgian architecture, a classical centre-entrance three-storey block. It was commissioned by the Hildyard family in the 1720s. The stable bock survives (the central clock tower just visible to the right of the house), this dated

Being three-storey and largely brick-built (freestone wall quoins) Burton Agnes Hall (see above, south facing front elevation) shares many features with Burton Constable. Even the ground-plan is similar although on a more domestic, less expansive scale. Largely built in the early 1600s Burton Agnes Hall is a classic example of grand Jacobean architecture (James I, the

This following the blog of 30th October. The first surviving written record of Burton Constable Hall dates from 1560 when it was already described as an ‘ancient building’. There is evidence in the immediate grounds of ‘ridge and furrow’ which may be related to the fact that nearby is a deserted village site, this and

Apologies again for the ‘break in service’, have had a mid/late-life crisis – details to anyone interested but for the moment sufficient to state ‘no fool like an old fool’. Last Monday saw the first of my five-week (short course) W.E.A. course on the English Civil Wars, 1642-1651, sometimes known as the Wars of three Kingdoms