Thimbleby Hall
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Thimbleby Hall is a historic building in Thimbleby, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
In the late 12th century, Bishop Hugh Pudsey granted Thimbleby Hall to his steward Philip Colville, after which it remained in the Colville family until 1418, when Sir John Colville was executed for treason at York. The estate then passed via the Wandesfords to the Peirse family of Hutton Bonville.[1]
The Peirse family built the present Georgian hall, which was extended in Victorian and Edwardian times, it was mainly used as a shooting lodge by the family. In the 1920s the hall was reduced in size, when a complete storey was removed from the centre block. It became a grade II listed building in 1953. A major restoration took place in the 1980s[2] with listed building consent.
In 2005, the hall along with the 3,000 acre estate was sold to Andrea Shelley (b. 1961) and her husband Andrew (b. 1960), Andrea is the eldest child of the late Sir Ken Morrison, the Yorkshire entrepreneur who created the Morrisons supermarket empire, Andrea and her siblings William Morrison and Eleanor Kernighan are reported by The Sunday Times to be worth approximately £933 million.[3][4][5] The present owners further renovated the hall, adding a wing and garages in 2011. In March 2011 it was delisted.[6]
Throughout its long history, the Thimbleby Estate has always remained in private ownership. To this day it is still a working estate, including grouse moors, a simulated shooting business, forestry and farming.[2][7]
