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Elsham Hall - Live Music Venue in Elsham

Elsham Hall is a 17th-century English country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire. The park and gardens are open to the public.

Venue
Elsham Hall
Address
Brigg, England, DN20 0QZ United Kingdom
Town
Elsham, GB

Elsham Hall is a 17th-century English country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire. The park and gardens are open to the public. The present house dates back to the 1760s, on the site of an earlier dwelling of which little is known. It is of brick construction, limestone ashlar on the main aspect and rendered elsewhere, and with a Westmoreland slate roof. The house was extended for the then owner, T. G. Corbett, in the 19th century, although most of the 19th-century service wing was demolished in the 20th. There were further enhancements by the Elwes family in 1933. The house is a Grade II* listed building. The house includes a Catholic chapel dating from 1933, and an 18th-century stone staircase. Separate from the house, on its own alignment, is a fine 19th-century orangery, which is a grade II listed building in its own right. The house is not open to the public. It was inherited by Gervase Elwes and Robert Elwes from their father Captain Jeremy Elwes in 1999 and placed in an Elwes 1989 Children's Trust for their heirs in perpetuity. The Gardens and Park is open in summer to visitors since 1970. Gervase Elwes lives at the Hall on the Elsham Estate. Robert Elwes lives at Sawcliffe Manor on the nearby Elwes Roxby Estate. The origins of Elsham Hall date from the 17th century or even earlier but in about 1760 major additions were made to the building. At this time the property was owned by William Thompson and his wife Elizabeth (née Gore). He died in 1764 and his son Robert Thompson inherited the estate, so it is possible that it was he who made the additions. He died in 1788 and as he had no children he left the house to his niece Elizabeth Corbett. She was the daughter of Humphrey Edwin and Mary Thompson. She was born in 1739 and in 1755 married Thomas Corbett (1730-1808), of Darnhall Hall in Cheshire. When she inherited Elsham Hall, she brought the property to the Corbett family. From 1800 to 1814 the house was occupied by Jane Gardiner