Ormesby

St Cuthbert's Church

Throughout the 19th century, Ormesby underwent many changes. Only minor alterations and extensions were carried out to Ormesby Hall, but the adjacent Parish Church was largely rebuilt. This took place between 1875 and 1907 to designs in the Decorated style by architects W. S. & W.L. Hicks. The new building incorporated the Anglo Saxon foundations, carved work and re-dressed masonry from the 12th-century church.

The oak lych-gate to St Cuthbert's churchyard, Ormesby, Redcar and Cleveland.

In 1883 the attractive oak lych-gate was added to the Church Lane entrance to the churchyard.[7]

Ormesby Hall

The manor of Ormesby was acquired by the Pennyman family when they bought up lands formerly owned by Gisborough Priory. As soon as they had acquired the first parcel of land, in about 1600, they set about building a house, which would have been little more than a large farmhouse and was probably on the site of the medieval grange buildings. Little by little they bought more of the surrounding land until they owned all of the manor of Ormesby. They had to sell the eastern half of the land, however, in 1715, only to buy it again in 1771. They finally sold it again to a John Brown of Liverpool. This subdivision of the estate inevitably influenced the way in which Ormesby developed over the next 200 years.[8]

With some of the Ormesby manor changing hands, more than once, a second house was built by the new owners, in the 1700s. This house, named Ormesby House, was replaced by the existing house of the same name in 1905.

Buildings, such as the Black Lion Inn and Black Lion Cottages were demolished in 1935. as was the row of four cottages opposite Ormesby House, in the 1960s. However, Mudd's Cottage, No 38 and the old Vicarage, now Hambleton House, still survive.

From the Victorian period the park was used by the Pennyman family, as well as the local community, for sports, with cricket and football in the summer (the cricket pitch remains) and golf in the winter months. Horticultural shows, garden fetes and political rallies followed.

Ormesby Hall was, from 1664 until 1852, the seat of the Baronetcy of Pennyman of Ormesby.

Today, Ormesby Hall, is open to the public. As well as acting as a museum showing the lifestyle of the Pennyman household during Victorian times, it also housed the horses of the Mounted Section of Cleveland Police.

Ormesby House was rebuilt in the Jacobethan style, in 1904

Jubilee Bank was built in the Arts and Crafts Vernacular style.

The century opened with the rebuilding of Ormesby House by its owner, Miss Elizabeth Caroline Brown, in 1904. Designed in the Jacobethan style, it is a substantial detached house built of red brick with concrete dressings. It is set well back into the garden, so that the subterranean remains of the old house probably survive.

Miss Brown, who died the following year, was a noted local benefactor and paid for the erection of a number of buildings in Ormesby including the Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial (Lamp), the churchyard lychgate, the tower and spire of St Cuthbert's Church and her own grade II listed monument in the churchyard.[9]

Ormesby Hall estate built a row of 3 brick and tile cottages, Nos. 2–6 Church Lane at the beginning of the 20th century. Then, some thirty years later, to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V, in 1935, Colonel Pennyman pulled down the old Black Lion Inn and cottages on Church Lane and erected, in their place, Jubilee Bank, a row of twenty-eight estate workers' cottages.

Architects Kitching & Co of Middlesbrough designed both rows in the fashionable Arts and Crafts Vernacular style.

The Memorial to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897)
erected by Miss Elizabeth Caroline Brown.
~ Church Lane, Ormesby ~

Back of memorial	Queen Victoria Memorial	Front of memorial
Inscription: This lamp was erected to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Caroline Brown of Ormesby House A.D. 1897.	Miss Elizabeth Caroline Brown erected a stone column, with a lamp at the top, to commemorate HRH Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, in 1897.	The memorial was originally sited at the junction of Church Lane and Ormesby High Street. The lamp, which was damaged when being moved, has since been replaced with a cross.

From 1894 until 1913, Ormesby was governed locally as part of its own Urban District,[10] stretching from Nunthorpe Station right down to the River Tees, after that it became part of Middlesbrough Rural District,[11] before being absorbed into Stokesley Rural District, in 1932 until the advent of the County Borough of Teesside, in 1968.[12]