Forcett Hall
Forcett Hall is a country house in the village of Forcett , about 10 km west of Darlington in the English county of North Yorkshire . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
Forcett Hall was originally an Elizabethan style house modified by William Benson in 1710 . After a fire in 1726, it was redesigned in the Palladian style in 1740 by the architect Daniel Garrett . The building has three floors and a basement, four main reception rooms, 15 bedrooms and an independent east wing with a further three bedrooms. The driveway consists of an arched driveway with four Roman- Doric columns and a Doric frieze. Nearby are the northern and southern lodges, both historical buildings of the second degree.
The country house stands in an 85 hectare park which contains various historical buildings, e.g. As a grotto with ice house and mountain, a wild garden, Stanwick - oppidum from the late Iron Age and a collection of old and rare trees, including one of the largest and oldest cedar trees in the country. The park has been listed by English Heritage on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest .
history
Forcett Hall had been owned by the Shuttleworth family of Gawthorpe Hall , Lancashire , since 1582 . In 1740 Richard Shuttleworth had the country house remodeled and his family moved here from Gawthorpe Hall. After his death, the property fell to his son James Shuttleworth , who like his father was a Member of Parliament for Preston and Lancashire, as well as 1760–1761 High Sheriff of Yorkshire . James' son Robert Shuttleworth inherited the country house after his father's death in 1773, but sold it in 1785. His son Robert Shuttleworth then resided at Gawthorpe Hall.
Robert Shuttleworth leased the mansion to Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley . The lease continued after the property was sold to Frances Mitchell and her son Charles Mitchell in 1785 . Until 1938 Forcett Hall was inherited in the Mitchell family. Then it was sold to Lieutenant Colonel Hardress Waller . His family is still the owner today.
The Heathcote family has lived in the country house since 1938 . Today it is managed by James and Alison Hesthcote who rent it out for private and corporate events.
In 2011 the property was put up for sale again, this time for £ 5.5m.
Individual evidence
- ^ Forcett Hall . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b Elizabethan Hall goes up for sale at £ 5.3 . Teesdale Mercury. Retrieved on January 8, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Forcett Hall . Southerngreen.co.uk. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
- ↑ The Shuttlewoods of Gawthorpe . Archived from the original on December 28, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ Forcett Hall, North Yorkshire . Remotegoat.co.uk. Archived from the original on April 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 23 " N , 1 ° 44 ′ 9" W.