Photo: Everingham Hall by Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Everingham Hall is a Grade I listed historic house in East Riding of Yorkshire, and a member of Historic Houses. Read about its history, architecture and gardens, plus how to visit and what's nearby.
About Everingham Hall
John Carr of York built Everingham Hall between 1757 and 1764 for William Haggerston Constable, who had inherited the Everingham Park estate a decade earlier.
The Palladian mansion stands near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Its grounds retain traces of a medieval deer park alongside three later phases of eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape design.
Historic Houses lists the property, and visits typically include the nearby Chapel of Saints Mary and Everilda, with its coffered ceiling and life-size statues of the apostles.
Read more on WikipediaHistory of Everingham Hall
James Firth enlarged the house between 1845 and 1848, adding a north wing and connecting it directly to the newly built Catholic chapel next door. It served as a country club from 1946 until Anne Fitzalan-Howard restored it as a private home in 1962, engaging architect Francis Johnson to strip away Firth's Victorian additions and return the house to something closer to Carr's original design. It was given grade I listed status in 1967.
Architecture of Everingham Hall
The house is built of red brick with stone quoins and a slate roof, following John Carr's Palladian scheme of the 1760s. Francis Johnson's 1962–63 remodelling deliberately reversed the mid-nineteenth-century enlargements by James Firth, favouring the original eighteenth-century proportions.
Worth knowing
The 1960s restoration was carried out for the Fitzalan-Howard family, associated with the Dukes of Norfolk, who returned the house to private use after its years as a country club.
Gardens & grounds at Everingham Hall
The park preserves elements of a medieval deer park layered with later designed landscapes, the earliest phase in the 1730s and 40s guided by the noted gardener Thomas Knowlton of nearby Londesborough.
Plan your visit to Everingham Hall
Nearest station: Eastrington Rail Station (7.9 miles)
Places to visit near Everingham Hall
Howden Minster
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View Brockfield Hall on heritage mapMiddlethorpe Hall
View Middlethorpe Hall on heritage mapClifford's Tower
View Clifford's Tower on heritage mapHistoric places nearby
Within 10 miles of Everingham Hall there are 1 historic properties, including 1 church.
Within 20 miles of Everingham Hall there are 17 historic properties, including 7 historic buildings, 5 historic houses and 3 churchs, across English Heritage, Historic Houses and National Trust sites.
Facts
A Georgian house deliberately un-restored, with a 1960s remodelling that stripped away Victorian additions to recover Carr's original design.
- Type
- historic house
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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