Cowesby Hall sits around half-a-mile from the centre of the village, the large Tudor-style
country house sits prominently atop a hill in the centre of its 1,300 acre estate and was erected in 1832 from the designs of
Anthony Salvin, the hall and the majority of its land falls within the
North York Moors National Park. The present manor house is believed to be the 4th built on the site, with the first documented to have being built in the
12th century for
William de Stuteville, whose son Robert died without issue, by the end of the 17th century, the manor was under the ownership of
Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew, who is also noted as the founder of Cowesby Hospital, a village-hospital built in the late 1700s to treat the impoverished estate workers. By the early 1800s the manor was under ownership of George Lloyd, Esq, who built the present hall between 1828 and 1832, he died in 1844 and left the estate to his eldest son William, whose son, also called William was Lord of the Manor until the 1940s, when the hall and estate was purchased by Sir John Watson Cameron, the son of Watson Cameron of
Camerons Brewery, it remained in ownership of the Camerons until 1999, when it was purchased by Robert Adair, a Yorkshire-based
oil tycoon and his wife Lucy, a
solicitor, the Adair's later divorced, which resulted in the £10m sale of The Cowesby Hall Estate in 2009 to a member of the billionaire
Morrisons family, the sale included the main house, several estate cottages in the adjoining village, two working farms and 1,298 acres of land, including
woodland, parkland,
farmland and
moorland. The 24,000 square foot, 10-bedroom manor house and its sprawling gardens have undergone an extensive renovation and restoration programme by its current owners, the hall sits prominently atop a hill and is sheltered on the north and east facade, whilst the south and west facade enjoy expansive and far reaching views over the
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