The Oglesby Suite

This Suite will be available in 2009

Situated in the north east corner of the Hall, the suite has a massive window that looks
out towards the adjoining Norman church, the ancient copper beech, woodland and open
parkland beyond. This grand suite has an enormous stone mullioned window and is accessed from the main landing via a small flight of steps.

History:
Due to ill health, the Hanson family sold the Hall in the late 1970s and it went through a succession of owners who attempted to do various things with the Hall before it eventually opened as a private nursing home in 1983. Goldsborough Estates who ran the home went on to build nursing homes throughout the UK and still remain today. After 20 years it was starting to take its toll on the building and the Hall closed as a nursing home in 2003. After two years lying empty, the Oglesby family purchased the Hall in late 2005 and once again set about the task of restoring the building as a private house, with a view to securing its future.

The Oglesby suite is named in honour of the owner's late father, Arthur Oglesby, who passed away in December 2000. Arthur Oglesby was a world renowned salmon fisherman, author and broadcaster. A Captain in the Black Watch during the Second World War, he survived the D-Day landings. After the War he returned home to York to run the family business manufacturing gripe water for children, which had been invented by his grandfather of the same name. In the late 1960s he gave it all up to concentrate on salmon fishing, teaching thousands of people during his 30 years as a founder member of the Association of Professional Game Angling Instructors.

An overnight stay in the Oglesby suite is a must for those travelling north to fish the great salmon rivers of Scotland and may just help improve your chances of catching a fish.

Room Features:
• 8ft by 8ft hand-made mahogany fully curtained four-poster bed with Emperor sized mattress
• White Company Egyptian cotton sheets and 10ft wide Siberian goose down duvet
• Dressing table and chair
• Large built in wardrobes
• Molton Brown toiletries
• Hypo-allergenic bedding
• 50in high-definition digital plasma TV
• In room mahogany mini-bar and safe
• Tea and coffee making facilities
• Two digital cordless direct dial telephones
• Wireless broadband internet access
• Brass touch sensitive bedside lights
• Alarm Clock with weather station
• Hairdryer

Bathroom Features:
• Curved glass shower with wireless controlled 12in monsoon shower head
• Double glass sinks
• Bathrobes
• Whirlpool bath
• Heated, demisting mirror
• Chrome heated towel rail
• Chrome shaver socket