Hi there. New to the forum. Was just passing through researching the area where I live and came upon this thread.
I live in one of the houses on the Gateforth Hall estate. My house was originally a servant's house. The hall / estate was built in about 1815 as a hunting lodge for Humphrey Osbaldeston. The family comes from Hunmanby near Scarborough and they lived at Hunmanby Hall. The history of ownership of Hunmanby Hall is here:
http://www.hunmanby.com/ceshall.htmlI imagine that the ownership of Gateforth Hall mirrors the ownership of Hunmanby Hall at least until 1922. In fact I have something in the deeds for my house about it being up for auction in about 1923 (that's without digging all the papers out and spending ages trying to find it!). The Gateforth Hall estate included the surrounding farms and these were auctioned off separately.
I know from the deeds to my house that the Hall was owned by Leeds City Council, which presumably made it into a hospital. During this period there were additional brick buildings erected as isolation wards. Then somehow the hospital came into the ownership of the National Coal Board who also used it as a hospital.
In the early 1980's the estate was auctiond off in lots and my house was bought by a retired miner and his wife. A builder bought some of the land and buildings and made the isolation wards into bungalows which he then sold. I'm not sure who bought the Hall itself, but when I bought my house in 1988 it was being run as a hotel, having previously been a nightclub I understand. I went there for a meal in the cellar bar couple of times during that period (and later was told that the celllar had been used as the mortuary for the hospital - eek!)
In the 1990's the Hall was sold and turned into an upmarket restaurant. See
http://www.ukeatingout.com/yorkshire/martel.htmrestauranteur which is still up there although the restaurant is closed now. In the early part of this decade the hall was sold a couple of times and is now used as a private residence.
The pic of the grand looking house that someone has poseted is the right place. And if you put Gateforth Hall into Google Maps you can see the current satellite picture.
Sorry if this is more than you wanted to know, or not what you wanted to know. If you want me to delve into the deeds to my house for more precise details let me know.
