Halsham House, Halsham, East Riding of Yorkshire, £495k
This wonderful Elizabethan home, with its unusual crow stepped gables has been off and on the market several times over the last decade or so. I once drove over to view it from the outside, I think that was a few days after Christmas 2009. It was built originally as a school.
It is listed grade ii, I’m not sure why it isn’t grade ii*, as it seems pretty original to me and there are few brick built Elizabethan houses in the East Riding in ordinary residential use. But it seems it was rather messed about with in the latter part of the 20th century. The roof is apparently concrete tile.
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Halsham is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the way towards Patrington from Hull. This makes it rather out of the way for anyone needing to commute to work and of course this area of coast is of course eroding, so prices here are comparatively low.
Halsham House stands in an acre of garden and the land round here is good. On the opposite side of the road, a little further up is a mausoleum, by Thomas Atkinson for the Constable family. Halsham House is also next to grade i listed, 12fth century All Saints Church.
I think the large dayroom kitchen is one of my favourite rooms, I love the floor. The large Elizabethan type table is perhaps a bit OTT for the setting with its lions. but something of the same size and colour in a simpler design would be good. Again some good rustic vernacular furniture in country wood would look well. Livery cupboards, court cupboards, dressers, mule chests, Lancashire chests, coffers, dough boxes, and best of all a huge bacon settle as well as dairy bowls in elm and sycamore and lots of copper and brass and early pewter and earthenware. I’d love to see this room in the middle of Christmas preparations with pancheons full of Christmas pudding mixture and that huge refectory table being used for the rolling out of pastry for hundreds of mince pies, and garlands of holly and yew strung from the beams.
The drawing room in the north wing with its beamed and vaulted ceiling, the beams painted white, is another, lovely period room. A mixture of knowle sofas in green velvet, the colur of Lady Arnolfini’s wedding dress, or William Morris linen union and old settles and battered brown leather chesterfield type chairs look good in pre Georgian drawing rooms and Aesthetic movement furniture by designers such as Charles Bevan and Charles Lamb to compliment such Elizabethan and 17th century furniture as one can acquire. Would a red Turkey carpet be a bit of a cliché in here? Possibly, but it would still look right.
In one of the bedrooms is a triple domed Japanned wardrobe. It isn’t of the period of the house, but I love it and were I to buy the house I would ask the current owners to leave it.
I’m not too sure about the outdoor lions, but I like the statue in the pond and the way the ivy has grown around it, turning it into a green doughnut.
All in all one feels one would be very happy and peaceful here.
It is listed grade ii, I’m not sure why it isn’t grade ii*, as it seems pretty original to me and there are few brick built Elizabethan houses in the East Riding in ordinary residential use. But it seems it was rather messed about with in the latter part of the 20th century. The roof is apparently concrete tile.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=166551&mode=quick
Halsham is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the way towards Patrington from Hull. This makes it rather out of the way for anyone needing to commute to work and of course this area of coast is of course eroding, so prices here are comparatively low.
Halsham House stands in an acre of garden and the land round here is good. On the opposite side of the road, a little further up is a mausoleum, by Thomas Atkinson for the Constable family. Halsham House is also next to grade i listed, 12fth century All Saints Church.
I think the large dayroom kitchen is one of my favourite rooms, I love the floor. The large Elizabethan type table is perhaps a bit OTT for the setting with its lions. but something of the same size and colour in a simpler design would be good. Again some good rustic vernacular furniture in country wood would look well. Livery cupboards, court cupboards, dressers, mule chests, Lancashire chests, coffers, dough boxes, and best of all a huge bacon settle as well as dairy bowls in elm and sycamore and lots of copper and brass and early pewter and earthenware. I’d love to see this room in the middle of Christmas preparations with pancheons full of Christmas pudding mixture and that huge refectory table being used for the rolling out of pastry for hundreds of mince pies, and garlands of holly and yew strung from the beams.
The drawing room in the north wing with its beamed and vaulted ceiling, the beams painted white, is another, lovely period room. A mixture of knowle sofas in green velvet, the colur of Lady Arnolfini’s wedding dress, or William Morris linen union and old settles and battered brown leather chesterfield type chairs look good in pre Georgian drawing rooms and Aesthetic movement furniture by designers such as Charles Bevan and Charles Lamb to compliment such Elizabethan and 17th century furniture as one can acquire. Would a red Turkey carpet be a bit of a cliché in here? Possibly, but it would still look right.
In one of the bedrooms is a triple domed Japanned wardrobe. It isn’t of the period of the house, but I love it and were I to buy the house I would ask the current owners to leave it.
I’m not too sure about the outdoor lions, but I like the statue in the pond and the way the ivy has grown around it, turning it into a green doughnut.
All in all one feels one would be very happy and peaceful here.
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