Hickleton Hall
| Hickleton Hall | |
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Hickleton Hall seen from the northeast
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 Location within South Yorkshire
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| General information | |
| Type | stately home |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| Location | Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 53°32′26″N 1°16′25.4″W / 53.54056°N 1.273722°W |
| Owner | Sue Ryder Care Home |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | James Paine |
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| Parking | Yes |
| Website | |
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Hickleton Hall is a Grade II* listedGeorgian stately home in Hickleton, South Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) west of Doncaster. For more than 50 years (until 2012) it was a Sue Ryder Care home. It is now being converted to luxury apartments.
It was built in 1745–48 of limestone ashlar with graduated slate roofs. The main range has a seven-bay frontage with flanking pavilions.
In the 16th century a house called Hickleton Palace stood on the site, built for Judge Francis Rodes. The present Hall was built in 1745–48, just to the south of the original house, designed by the architect James Paine for Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley, near Barnsley, who had bought the estate in about 1730. He had the house extended in about 1775 with the addition of two low wings on either side and a servants wing. He died in 1789 and the Hall was inherited by his grandson, Godfrey Wentworth Armytage, who changed his name to Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth. He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1796–97. When his banking business failed he was forced to sell the property.
It was bought in 1828 by Sir Francis Lindley Wood, 2nd Baronet of Hemsworth and Garrowby and on his death in 1846 passed to his son Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet (1800–85). Charles Wood was MP for Grimsby, Wareham, Halifax and Ripon. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1846–52 and created Viscount Halifax in 1866. He died in 1885 at the Hall, which was then inherited by his son Charles Lindley Wood (1839–1934), the 2nd Viscount and on his death by his son, Edward Wood, the 3rd Viscount Halifax, who was Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1929, Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940 and created Earl Halifax in 1944.
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