Self Catering at Yeldersley Hall

The Clock Tower Yeldersley Hall Yeldersley Ashbourne Derbyshire DE6 1LS Tel. 01335 347012 Email. baileyj@baileyj.entadsl.com

ACCOMMODATION

We have four self-catering apartments from which to choose:

Archway	Yew Tree	Stable	East Wing

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Archway, Yew Tree and Stable apartments each sleep two people.

The East Wing apartment is slightly larger and sleeps four people. Please click on the appropriate apartment name for further details.

Our accommodation is inspected annually by the Tourist Board. Archway and Yew Tree are four star rated and Stable and East Wing are five star rated.

HISTORY

Yeldersley Hall was built on its present site in about 1800 for Edmund Evans, whose family made their money from a mill at Darley Abbey, Derby. The hall has had many owners since Edmund Evans, but had a long spell within the ownership of Francis Wright and his descendants. Francis Wright was a director of the Butterley Ironworks Company whose projects included St. Pancras Railway Station. He also owned Osmaston Manor, a nearby estate and he has a statue in his honour in the market place, Ashbourne.

Royal connection

Yeldersley Hall can claim a royal connection, albeit fairly remote! The Duchess of York's great grandfather, FitzHerbert Wright, owned Yeldersley Hall and her grandfather, Henry FitzHerbert Wright was born here. Her mother, Susan Barrantes, was born a FitzHerbert Wright.

Ian Fleming connection

Ian Fleming created James Bond in 1953 with the novel Casino Royale. He visited Yeldersley Hall on several occasions, primarily to see Muriel Wright with whom he had a passionate, but doomed wartime affair. Muriel Wright was the daughter of Henry FitzHerbert Wright. Apparently of great beauty, and a skier and polo player of some repute, it has been suggested that she could have stepped straight into the pages of a James Bond novel.

 

Guests are welcome to explore the grounds at Yeldersley Hall. We have twelve acres in total. This includes the formal gardens to the front of the house where you will find lawns, mature rhododendron bushes, azaleas, a pond/rockery area and usually lots of rabbits. The formal gardens are at their best in the spring. There is a kitchen garden of which we which we cultivate only a small part (due to pressure of time). The kitchen garden contains Victorian greenhouses which we restored when we acquired the property. They date back to the 1900s and were described in some 1929 sale particulars as the ‘modern greenhouses'. Please click images to enlarge. To the rear of the property, and overlooked by the Stable apartment, is the walled garden. In the walled garden we have created an ornamental parterre, an orchard garden and a rose garden. It provides plenty of colour throughout the summer. Of further interest are the dog kennels which are specifically mentioned in the listing to the property. They now are used to house chickens and sometimes pigs. Guests can also visit the Clock tower which contains an interesting early 20th century turret clock by Smiths of Derby. Those with an interest in horses will see that it also houses a traditional tack store. For the energetic amongst our guests, a tennis court is available for use and we have spare rackets and balls which guests can use. Croquet and boules sets are also stored in the laundry room for guests' use. We have plenty of storage space in our old stables should anyone wish to bring bikes with them, although we do ask guests to bring their own locks. Many guests are interested in visiting our function room which was formerly the billiard room to the main hall. It contains a magnificent carved oak fireplace and unusual plaster mouldings. The room is sometimes hired out for special events or group gatherings.   DATE ARCHWAY YEW TREE STABLE EAST WING     October 07 200 200 230 350   14 200 200 230 350   21 200 200 230 350   28 200 200 230 350           November 04 200 200 230 320   11 200 200 230 320   18 200 200 230 320   25 200 200 230 320           December 02 200 200 230 320   09 200 200 230 320   16 200 200 230 320   23 250 250 300 500   30 250 250 300 500           January 06 200 200 230 320   13 200 200 230 320   20 200 200 230 320   27 200 200 230 320           February 03 200 200 230 320   10 200 200 230 320   17 200 200 230 320   23 200 200 230 320           March 03 200 200 230 320   10 200 200 230 320   17 225 225 275 400   24 250 250 300 450

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