Elsham Hall

Elsham Hall is a 17th century country house situated in its own parkland in Elsham, North Lincolnshire, England.

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.

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 (nee 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. Elizabeth Corbett (nee Edwin) was the daughter of Humphrey Edwin and Mary Thompson. She was born in 1839 and in 1855 married Thomas Corbett (1730-1808) who was of Darnhall Hall in Cheshire. When she inherited Elsham Hall from her maternal uncle in 1788 she brought the property to the Corbett family.

From 1800 to 1814 the house was occupied by Jane Gardiner, who ran a girls' boarding school there.

When Thomas Corbett died in 1808, the eldest son, William Thompson Corbett (1759-1832), inherited the estate and also took the additional name of Thompson. In 1794 he married Jane Eleanor Ainslie, the daughter of General George Ainslie. They had twelve children; their eldest son, Thomas George Corbett, inherited the property in 1832. He married in 1837 Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk, daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans. They had one daughter Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett and she married in 1858 Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (see picture).

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