Cowling Hall
Cowling Hall is a historic building in Cowling, a village near Bedale in North Yorkshire, in England.
History
The oldest part of the building was probably constructed as a peel tower in the 12th century. It was extended around 1450 to form a manor house, with the old section as one of two wings. The old wing was altered in the 17th century. The great hall and one of the wings were demolished in 1700, and replaced by a rectangular house in the Queen Anne style. At the time, the house was owned by Henry Raper.In the 17th-century, Cowling Hall belonged to the Jackson family. The 1625 will of Dame Honor Procter, daughter of Ralph Green, a court musician who played the sackbut for Elizabeth I, gives some idea of life at Cowling. She lived at Cowling after her daughter Deborah married Thomas Jackson. She was interesting in medicine and distilling, owning a "stillytorie for roses", a bezoar stone, and a piece of so-called unicorn horn. Her clothes included a riding cloak, safeguard, hood, and mittens. She owned a book of Mr Smith's sermons. The pewter was marked with her and her husband's arms. For music, she had a pair of virginals and a chest of viols. She owned paintings of Will Sommers, Philip II, Elizabeth I, and Jane Shore. She bequeathed individual links from her gold chain to various family members. Bequests of clothing include a "pair of French bodies of taffeta".
During World War II, the property was used to house Canadian air personnel based at RAF Leeming. After the war, it had a variety of private owners, most notably Gresham Clacy, who cut a large peace symbol in the lawn as a protest against the noise caused by Royal Air Force aircraft. At some point, it was divided into two properties. The entire building was Grade I listed in 1966.