Newfield Hall is a former
country house located to the southeast of the village of
Airton
Airton (also known as Airton-in-Craven) is a small village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, situated north-west of Skipton. The village had a population of 175 according to the 2001 Census, increasing to ...
,
North Yorkshire
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, England. It is now a hotel.
History
It was designed by the
Lancaster architect
E. G. Paley for William Nicholson Alcock at a cost of £36,000 (). Construction of the house started by at least 1855, and it was opened in 1856. Alcock was a lawyer who had moved to
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gl ...
by 1881.
The house and its estate were sold in 1890 to William Illingworth, a retired Bradford
worsted
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manufacturer. It was sold again in 1901 to John William Morkill who became
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere o ...
in 1929–30 and a Deputy Lieutenant, and who wrote the standard local history of Malhamdale. During the 1930s the estate was broken up, the house being leased to the Holiday Fellowship, and the rest of the estate was sold to
All Souls College, Oxford.
The house has since been used as a hotel administered by HF Holidays.
See also
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List of works by Sharpe and Paley
Sharpe and Paley was a partnership of two architects who practised from an office in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1845 and 1856. Founded by Edmund Sharpe in 1835, the practice flourished for more than a century, until 1946. It ha ...
References
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Houses completed in 1856
Country houses in North Yorkshire
E. G. Paley buildings
Hotels in North Yorkshire
Country house hotels
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