Kiplin Hall

Kiplin Hall
Near Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6AT
England

Website

www.kiplinhall.co.uk

E-mail

info@kiplinhall.co.uk

Telephone

01748 818178

Fax

01748 818178

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Kiplin Hall stands near the River Swale in the beautiful Vale of Mowbray, between the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. The Hall was built as a hunting lodge in the early 1620s for George Calvert, Secretary of State to James I, later the 1st Lord Baltimore and the founder of Maryland, USA. Its design was unique in Jacobean architecture, with central domed towers on each side of a tall symmetrical pavilion in mellow red brick. Four families linked by marriage owned Kiplin for almost four centuries, increasing the estate, making changes to the building, and adding to its collections of fine paintings and furniture. Recent restoration work has brought the Hall back to life as a comfortable and welcoming Victorian family home.

Venue Type:

Historic house or home

 Opening hours

2006 -
Open Good Friday April 14th,
Easter Saturday April 15th,
and then Sunday - Wednesday April 16th - October 31st
2 - 5pm

Pre-booked group visits welcomed April to December, including evenings. Guided tour of the Hall, choice of refreshments. Please telephone 01748 818178 or email info@kiplinhall.co.uk for information and bookings.

 Admission charges

Adult £4.50
Concession £3.50
Child £2.50
Family Ticket £12.75 (2 adults and up to 3 children)

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Gardens open to public
  • Parking for coaches
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Commercial and hire services
  • Licensed for weddings

Additional info

Access: The ground floor, including the Shop and Tea Room, is accessible to visitors in wheelchairs. An album of photographs of the first and second floors is available at the Reception Desk.
A large print version of the ‘Kiplin Hall Brief Tour’ (self-guided) is available.

Kiplin Hall
Near Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6AT
England

Website

www.kiplinhall.co.uk

E-mail

info@kiplinhall.co.uk

Telephone

01748 818178

Fax

01748 818178

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

In the late 19th century, Admiral Carpenter owned Kiplin Hall near Scorton. He and his wife, Beatrice, were interested in the current, national Arts and Crafts movement. This is reflected in the blue and white tiles in the Drawing Room fireplace, designed by the architect Philip Webb and sold by William Morris’s firm, Morris & Co., in London. The Library fireplace has richly glazed tiles by William de Morgan, with wonderful ships and sea monsters. Beatrice probably embroidered the fire screen in the Lady Waterford Room, worked from a kit which was sold by Morris & Co.

Beatrice taught classes in woodcarving and inlay, where local men made the furniture she designed. Many pieces are still at Kiplin Hall. Albert Hurwood (1875-1962) of Scorton attended Mrs Carpenter’s classes and made many carved items of furniture for his home. His most remarkable piece was a magnificent, oak fireplace with over mantel, carved with vines, which his grandsons have kindly donated to Kiplin Hall.

Collection details

Architecture, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art

Key artists and exhibits

  • Arts and Crafts furniture
  • William de Morgan tiles
  • William Morris
  • Philip Webb

Kiplin Hall
Near Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6AT
England

Website

www.kiplinhall.co.uk

E-mail

info@kiplinhall.co.uk

Telephone

01748 818178

Fax

01748 818178

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Buildings - Material - Patterns KS1 'The House is Talking' KS2 'Hall Detectives'

KS1 'The House is Talking'! - Patterns are everywhere around us. Children look for patterns in and outside the buildings, use the Clore Education Room, draw and make patterned/picture clay tile.
KS2 'Hall Detectives' - Using the Buildings Activity Station in the Education Room, using resource materials to plan a guidebook, following a trail in the grounds using teamnwork to solve clues.

Creator

  • Dawn Webster (Curator)
  • Amanda Moore (Education Consultant)

Life in Victorian Britain Key Stages 1 and 2

Children are greeted at the front door and slip into the feel of Victorian times, as they put on pinafores and collars, prior to an introduction to life in the Hall.
Taking part in activities around the house, they also make use of the Education Room where dressing up clothes, objects from everyday Victorian life and storyboards help children to understand life in the Victorian era.
KS1 - 'A Child from the Past' gives an insight into how children lived and played in Queen Victoria's reign.
KS2 'A Victorian Child' - Children take part in Victorian leisure activities.

Creator

  • Dawn Webster (Curator)
  • Amanda Moore(Education Consultant)

World War II - How Children Lived

During the Second World War, Kiplin Hall was requistioned by the army. Later it was converted to flats for RAF officers. Two rooms have been left as they were during this period and there is a collection of objects from the Home Front. A programme of activties related to the time has been designed to show children what life was like on the 'home front'.

Creator

  • Dawn Wenster (Curator)
 Paper-based and downloads

Art - KS1 'Portrait Detectives' and KS2 'You and Me '

Kiplin Hall has a unique collection of portraits covering four hundred years of history. In KS1 'Portrait Detectives'children disuss portraits and use the Art Activity Station in the Clore Education Room to enhance what they have seen. They also sketch portraits of self and partner.
KS2 'You and Me'provides an opportunity to discuss the portraits, what the children observe, and what can be 'read' from the paintings - what the sitters might be feeling, what they are holding and what other features have been included in the painting. Children will also draw their own portrait.

Creator

  • Dawn Webster (Curator)
  • Amanda Moore (Education Consultant)

Kiplin Hall
Near Scorton
Richmond
North Yorkshire
DL10 6AT
England

Website

www.kiplinhall.co.uk

E-mail

info@kiplinhall.co.uk

Telephone

01748 818178

Fax

01748 818178

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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