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Nunnington Hall
...in North Yorkshire stands on the banks of the River Rye. A dwelling has been recorded from 1249, but the existing house has grown out of a Tudor hall. Notable tenants from that period include William Parr, the brother of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, whose estates were forfeit to the crown because of his involvement in royal plots. In 1567, the estate was sublet to Dr Robert Huicke, chief physician to Elizabeth I.
In 1644, Sir Thomas Norcliffe gave up the hall as a billet for parliamentary troops, and after the Civil War, the house was in need of much repair. A cloth merchant called Ranald Graham bought the Nunnington estate in 1655 and, besides restoring the house, he helped to improve Nunnington village. The direct Graham line ran out in 1757, after which the hall was leased and began to decline. It had become a semi-derelict farmhouse by the early nineteenth century and, in 1839, it was put up for sale. The Rutson family, whose main residence was Newby Wiske Hall near Northallerton, then bought Nunnington to use as a sporting lodge for shooting, fishing, tennis, and croquet.
In 1920, Margaret Fife, the daughter of Albert Ruston, inherited both Newby Wiske and Nunnington, and sold the former to fund the latter's transformation into a family home. Margaret Fife bequeathed the hall, some of its contents, and part of its grounds to the National Trust in 1952, when it was opened to visitors twice weekly. Her daughter, Susan Clive, lived in the hall until 1978, when the family moved into the village, and more of the hall was opened to visitors.
By a strange coincidence, not long after this, my very first visit to Nunnington, I watched a rather weird film on Netflix called "Men", which was clearly shot at least partly on location here.
Nunnington Hall
...in North Yorkshire stands on the banks of the River Rye. A dwelling has been recorded from 1249, but the existing house has grown out of a Tudor hall. Notable tenants from that period include William Parr, the brother of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, whose estates were forfeit to the crown because of his involvement in royal plots. In 1567, the estate was sublet to Dr Robert Huicke, chief physician to Elizabeth I.
In 1644, Sir Thomas Norcliffe gave up the hall as a billet for parliamentary troops, and after the Civil War, the house was in need of much repair. A cloth merchant called Ranald Graham bought the Nunnington estate in 1655 and, besides restoring the house, he helped to improve Nunnington village. The direct Graham line ran out in 1757, after which the hall was leased and began to decline. It had become a semi-derelict farmhouse by the early nineteenth century and, in 1839, it was put up for sale. The Rutson family, whose main residence was Newby Wiske Hall near Northallerton, then bought Nunnington to use as a sporting lodge for shooting, fishing, tennis, and croquet.
In 1920, Margaret Fife, the daughter of Albert Ruston, inherited both Newby Wiske and Nunnington, and sold the former to fund the latter's transformation into a family home. Margaret Fife bequeathed the hall, some of its contents, and part of its grounds to the National Trust in 1952, when it was opened to visitors twice weekly. Her daughter, Susan Clive, lived in the hall until 1978, when the family moved into the village, and more of the hall was opened to visitors.
By a strange coincidence, not long after this, my very first visit to Nunnington, I watched a rather weird film on Netflix called "Men", which was clearly shot at least partly on location here.