Hutton Hall is a grade II listed

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in the Hutton Lowcross area to the south west of

Guisborough Guisborough ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It lies north of the North York Moors National Park. Roseberry Topping, midway between the town and Great Ayton, is a landmark i ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...

, England.

History

The Victorian Gothic house was built in 1866 by

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for the

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industrialist and

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Joseph Pease Joseph Pease may refer to: * Joseph Pease (railway pioneer) (1799–1872), railway owner, first Quaker elected Member of Parliament ** Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet (1828–1903), MP 1865–1903, full name Joseph Whitwell Pease, son of Joseph Pease ...

. Pease was involved in local ironstone mining and had bought the estate in 1851. The house and stable block were set in of parkland; laid out by James Pulham the estate included a kitchen garden, an exotic fernery, shrubbery, waterfalls, streams and bridges.

Hutton Gate railway station Hutton Gate was a railway station on the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway. It was opened on 25 February 1854 and closed along with the entire Nunthorpe- Guisborough branch on 2 March 1964. The station stands on Hutton Lane, just east of its ...

was built in about 1867 to serve Hutton Hall, becoming a public station only in 1904. In 1902, a banking crash forced Joseph Pease to sell the house. James Warley Pickering bought it in 1905, and passed to his son. During the 1930s much of the woodland was felled. It was sold again in 1935 to Alfred Pease. During the

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, Ruth Pennyman of

Ormesby Hall Ormesby Hall, a Grade I listed building, is a predominantly 18th-century mansion house built in the Palladian style and completed in 1754. It is situated in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in the north-east of England. The home of the ...

contacted Alfred Pease to request the use of Hutton Hall to house Spanish nuns and Basque refugees; the first 20 children arrived on 1 July 1937. During

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it was requisitioned by the military. In 1948, the hall, and the which remained of the estate, were sold to John Mathison. In 1985 it was sold to a property developer and converted into flats and executive housing.

Architecture

The two-storey red brick building has stone dressings and slate roofs. The seven-

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south front has a slate canopy. On the east side is a conservatory which has an internal arcade of arches on flute columns below a

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References

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