Hutton Hall, Guisborough

Hutton Hall is a grade II listed country house in the Hutton Lowcross area to the south west of Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England.

1. History

The Victorian Gothic house was built in 1866 by Alfred Waterhouse for the Quaker industrialist and member of parliament, Joseph Pease. Pease was involved in local ironstone mining and had bought the estate in 1851. The house and stable block were set in 113 hectares (280 acres) of parkland; laid out by James Pulham the estate included a kitchen garden, an exotic fernery, shrubbery, waterfalls, streams and bridges. Hutton Gate railway station was built in about 1867 to serve Hutton Hall, becoming a public station only in 1904. In 1902, a banking crash forced Joseph Pease to sell the house. James Warley Pickering bought it in 1905, and passed to his son. During the 1930s much of the woodland was felled. It was sold again in 1935 to Alfred Pease. During the Spanish Civil War, Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall contacted Alfred Pease to request the use of Hutton Hall to house Spanish nuns and Basque refugees; the first 20 children arrived on 1 July 1937. During World War II it was requisitioned by the military. In 1948, the hall, and the 13.5 acres (5.5 ha) which remained of the estate, were sold to John Mathison.

1. Architecture

The two-storey red brick building has stone dressings and slate roofs. The seven-bay south front has a slate canopy. On the east side is a conservatory which has an internal arcade of arches on flute columns below a parapet.

1. References

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Hutton Gate railway station

Hutton Gate was a railway station on the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway. It was opened on 25 February 1854 and closed along with the entire Nunthorpe-Guisborough branch on 2 March 1964. The station stands on Hutton Lane, just east of its junction with The Avenue. Originally, the station was exclusively for the use of the Pease family at the nearby Hutton Hall; the family owned the major iron ore mines in the region at the time and the railway line was designed to service these mines. Although a private station, excursion traffic was allowed to detrain at Hutton Gate, such as Liberal Association specials from Thornaby in the 1890s. These were run for a speaking event held in a marquee on the lawn outside Hutton Hall. The station was closed between May 1864 and July 1881, and then again from October 1903 to January 1904. It was purchased from the Pease family by the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1904, and opened for public use. It served Hutton Village and, later, the Guisborough suburb of Hutton Lowcross. The station had its staffing withdrawn in 1961, and was listed for closure in March 1963. Full closure to all traffic came in March 1964. Following the branch's closure, the track was removed but the station remains intact and is now a private house. The modern road Pease Court begins where the station's level crossing once gave access to Hutton Hall.

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Ruther Cross

Ruther Cross is the shaft of an old stone cross in Guisborough in Redcar and Cleveland, England. It stands close to the point where the old road Ruthergate used to cross Hutton Lane. The cross was designated Grade II listed in April 1984.

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Hutton Village

Hutton Village is a settlement in the Hutton Lowcross area of Guisborough in North Yorkshire, England. Whilst the area itself is mentioned in the Domesday Book, the village was built largely due to the development of the ironstone industry in the Cleveland Hills. The name Hutton Lowcross referred to the township in the area, whereas the settlement is now known as Hutton Village. The village is set in a narrow dale that carries Hutton Beck northwards towards Guisborough.

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Hutton Junction railway station

Hutton Junction railway station served the town of Guisborough, in the historical county of North Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1878 to 1891 on the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway.

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