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Horsley Hall

Stanhope, GB

Horsley Hall

Horsley Hall is a 17th-century country house, now in use as a hotel, near Stanhope, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The farmhouse at Horsley was part of the estate purchased in 1808 by the Reverend Henry Hildyard of Stokesley Manor House, a member of a junior branch of the

Hildyards of Winestead, Yorkshire (see Hildyard Baronets). John Richard Westgarth Hale inherited the estate from his uncle Col. Robert Hildyard of Stokesley, changed his name by Deed Poll to Hildyard and bought the Hutton Bonville estate from the Beresford-Pierce family, employing the architect Anthony Salvin to convert the farmhouse at Horsley into a 17th-century-style manor house for use as a 'shooting box' for the grouse shooting season. The outbuildings included game larders, gun room, laundry, lamp room, stables, harness room, blacksmiths forge and carpenter's workshop. Westernhope Moor was part of the estate, and other grouse moors were rented. Several members of the Hildyard family served as High Sheriff of Durham in 1850, 1863, 1900 and 1947. The Hildyards sold the estate in 1954 and moved to Yorkshire. Horsley Hall was purchased for £800 by a former Under Gardener who bricked up...

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