Holme Hall is a grade II* listed 18th-century country house in

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (also known as Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor) is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Howden and south-west of Market Weighton. It lies on the ...

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England. It was then a

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Home until its closure in February 2018. The house was built to designs of William Wakefield for Lord Langdale, with a chapel added in 1766 by

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. It is constructed in two storeys of rendered brick with tile and Westmorland slate roofs, with a 5-bay frontage.

History

The Langdale family have lived in the Beverley area since at least the fourteenth century when Patrick de Langdale married Elena Houghton and inherited through her estates in Houghton and Etton. The estates descended to

Marmaduke Langdale Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale ( – 5 August 1661) was an English landowner and soldier who fought with the Royalists during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An only child who inherited large estates, he served in the 1620 to 1622 Palati ...

, who went to live at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor where he bought land from the crown that had belonged to the Constable family before the attainder of Robert Constable for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was a Royalist commander in the

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and was forced to flee to the continent, where he joined Charles II and was created the 1st Baron Langdale of Holme in 1658. His eldest son,

(b.1627), became governor of Hull and lived at Holme. He died in 1703 and his son inherited the Holme and Stourton estates, commissioning William Wakefield to renovate the Holme house around 1720. An adjacent Catholic chapel was added in 1766. When the 5th Baron died in 1771 the title became extinct and the Holme estate passed to his grandson Philip Henry Joseph Stourton (1793–1860), younger son of Charles Philip Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton. Philip was a

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and Deputy Lieutenant for the East Riding. From him the estate passed via his son Henry Joseph (b. 1844) to the latter's daughter Amy Mary Josephine, who had married diplomat Frederick Dundas Harford. She sold it in 1920 to be used as a convent for the next fifty years. It was taken over by Sue Ryder Care in 1981, who ran it as a residential care home for adults with neurological conditions. The home closed in February 2018.

References

External links

Official site
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