Elemore Hall
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Elemore Hall is a mid 18th century country house, now in use as a residential special school, near Pittington
, County Durham
, England
. It is a Grade I listed building.
The manor of Elemore was owned prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
by the Priory of Finchale. It was sold to Bertram Anderson, Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle on Tyne, who built a manor house in about 1550. The estate passed from Anderson to Hall and then by marriage to Thomas Conyers MP
for Durham City 1702-22. In about 1700 Elizabeth Conyers, heiress of the estate, married George Baker, also MP for Durham City, of Crook Hall, near Lanchester.
Their son George Baker inherited the manor in 1723 and in about 1750 replaced the old manor house with the present mansion to a design by architect Robert Shout of Hemsley. The house follows the E plan of the old manor but on a much grander scale. The three storey, seven bayed entrance front has a pedimented three bayed projecting central block and two flanking and projecting pedimented single bay wings.
In 1844 Isabella Baker heiress of the estate, married the son of her aunt and first cousin, Henry Tower. On inheriting the property he changed his name to Henry Baker Baker. He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1854. The Baker Baker family lived at the Hall until the 1930s. In 1947 the estate was sold to Durham County Council. The Hall has since then been occupied by a local education authority day and residential special school.
Pittington
Pittington is a village and civil parish in County Durham, in England. It is situated a few miles north-east of Durham.Pittington is made up of the neighbouring settlements of Low Pittington and High Pittington...
, County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
, England
England
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. It is a Grade I listed building.
The manor of Elemore was owned prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...
by the Priory of Finchale. It was sold to Bertram Anderson, Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle on Tyne, who built a manor house in about 1550. The estate passed from Anderson to Hall and then by marriage to Thomas Conyers MP
Member of Parliament
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for Durham City 1702-22. In about 1700 Elizabeth Conyers, heiress of the estate, married George Baker, also MP for Durham City, of Crook Hall, near Lanchester.
Their son George Baker inherited the manor in 1723 and in about 1750 replaced the old manor house with the present mansion to a design by architect Robert Shout of Hemsley. The house follows the E plan of the old manor but on a much grander scale. The three storey, seven bayed entrance front has a pedimented three bayed projecting central block and two flanking and projecting pedimented single bay wings.
In 1844 Isabella Baker heiress of the estate, married the son of her aunt and first cousin, Henry Tower. On inheriting the property he changed his name to Henry Baker Baker. He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1854. The Baker Baker family lived at the Hall until the 1930s. In 1947 the estate was sold to Durham County Council. The Hall has since then been occupied by a local education authority day and residential special school.