Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
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A collection of 17th -20th century family portraits; 17th-20th century furniture and many family mementoes of Colonel and Mrs Pennyman. There is fine bold Palladian plasterwork and wood carvings(c1740) in the Entrance Hall and good Neo-classical decoration in the Drawing room,Dining room and Gallery(c 1772). There are just under 1700 books once the property of the Pennyman family. Mostly from the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries,some strong in radical causes, reflecting the left wing sympathies of twentieth-century owners.