You can do this cache any time but if you want to visit the Hall, please read the noticeboards or look at the National Trust website carefully for public opening times between March and October as the Hall is used for Education visits, lectures and weddings on weekdays. When the Hall is open, access to the Gardens and Tea Room is free of charge. Members of the National Trust can have FREE entry to the house when open if you show your membership card.
Please respect and enjoy this estate. The pathways are all Permissive Paths, apart from the section of the ‘Park to Park Walk’ to the south of the Hall alongside the A174 which is a Public Right of Way. All Ormesby Hall caches are close to the ‘Park to Park Walk’.
Please respect the privacy of the farm and do not climb over any gates or railings, there is always a better way round. Keep dogs on a lead at all times to safeguard farm animals and walkers. Thank you.
Ormesby Hall, home of acts of kindness, was lived in by the influential and community spirited Pennyman family, for nearly 400 years. Ormesby Hall consists of two houses, the Old Wing built in the early 1600s and the Georgian mansion built in the 1740s. The Hall is surrounded by a lovely landscaped estate, some of which is farmland. Also on the estate is the 18thC Stables, now the home of the Cleveland Police Mounted Section, and Grange Farm which was the home farm for the Hall and is now a private tenanted farm.
Since the last owner owner of Ormesby Hall, Lt.Col. James Pennyman died in 1961, Ormesby Hall has been in the hands of the National Trust, a major charity who look after historic buildings and areas of countryside ‘For Ever, For Everyone’. The Trust is not only responsible for the conservation of heritage and environment but also for making visitors welcome. We hope you enjoy your time here.
Ormesby Hall #2 HOME FOR HORSES
Park off the estate on Church Lane unless the Hall is open to the public. You run the risk of being locked in at closing time if you use the estate car park.
The Stable Block was built in 1779 by the infamous ‘Wicked’ Sir James Pennyman who used the Hall as his summer residence, entertaining his London friends, going to local race courses and betting on the horses. He managed to bankrupt himself through gambling and high living. Until recently these magnificent Stables used to house horses of the Cleveland Police Mounted Section.