Winestead Hall was a large country house at

Winestead Winestead is a village in the civil parish of Patrington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately south-east of Hedon and north-west of Patrington. It is situated to the north of ...

in the

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, England.

History

Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd Baronet commissioned the house, which was then known as the Red Hall, to a design thought to have been by

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, in the 1720s.Robinson, p. 190 The work was completed by Sir Robert Hildyard, 3rd Baronet. Following the death of the 4th Baronet in 1814, the house passed to his niece, Ann Catherine Whyte, who married in the following year Thomas Blackborne Thoroton, Esq., of Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottingham. Col. Thoroton of the

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subsequently assumed the name and coat-of-arms of Hildyard.Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard and his wife, the former Catherine Whyte, continued to reside part-time in Winestead after her move to Nottinghamshir
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, who demolished it in 1936 to make way for a hospital.

References

*Robinson, John, ''Felling the Ancient Oaks'', Aurum Press, 2011, {{coord, 53.7131, -0.0357, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Country houses in the East Riding of Yorkshire British country houses destroyed in the 20th century Holderness Demolished buildings and structures in the East Riding of Yorkshire Buildings and structures demolished in 1936