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thumb Howsham Hall is a grade I listed Jacobean stately home in Howsham, North Yorkshire, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Howsham Hall ) 〕 It is built in two storeys of limestone ashlar to a U-shaped plan with a 7-bay frontage. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Howsham Conservation Area Appraisal ) 〕 ==History== In the early 16th century the Howsham estate belonged to nearby Kirkham Priory and following the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII was granted to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland around 1540. His great-grandson sold it to Thomas Bamburgh. The present Hall was built in about 1610 on the site of a previous manor house, using stone from the priory, by Sir William Bamburgh, whose coat of arms, with those of his wife Mary Forthe, is above the main entrance. The cellar is Norman and the main part of the house is Jacobean. However the structure of the building has since been altered over the years. Sir William was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1607–08. In 1709, the house having passed by marriage to the Wentworth family, Sir John Wentworth added the east front.〔 Having passed again by marriage to the Cholmeley family of Whitby Abbey, the house was remodelled in about 1775 for Nathaniel Cholmeley, possibly by John Carr. There is a Georgian brick extension at the back of the house and some of the windows have been altered so they have larger panes in the Georgian style. The parkland was laid out by Capability Brown in the 1770s for the Cholmeley family. In the grounds are three Giant Sequoia trees arranged in a triangle. These were given to a limited number of country estates in the seventeenth century. Sequoias were unknown to European horticulture till the middle of the 19th century, post the California goldrush. The estate passed (once again by marriage) to the Strickland family in the 19th century. They sold the estate and its contents in 1948; in the 1950s, it was bought by John Knock and converted into a boy’s preparatory school.〔Howsham Hall website http://www.howshamhall.com/#/about/4547412656〕 The hall and its estate are currently up for sale as a private house for £5,000,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Property for sale - Howsham, North Yorkshire, YO60 )〕 The old gates for the estate are several miles away towards York and have been recently restored. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Howsham Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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