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Dreams fly in a house with wings

Howard Hall on the edge of the North York Moors is a house with wings: a place where your holiday dreams will fly. Bring 26 Lords and Ladies to this imposing manor house, your tennis rackets for all-weather court, your cossies for the heated pool and your misspent youth for the snooker table.

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Play Lords and Ladies in lovely Yorkshire

Rent a house with wings and your holiday dreams will fly. Especially one that’s duck-hosting, chandelier-dripping, tennis-enabling, swimming-friendly and generally inclined to have you checking out the price of ball gowns. This is Lord and Lady of the Manor stuff. Glide down the staircase, take tea on the lawn, admire the rose garden.

It’s all in the detail here at Howard Hall on the edge of the heavenly North York Moors. Detail such as high ceilings, elaborate coving, 200-year-old table and sunny south-facing terrace. But you’ll love the big picture here as well. With sleeping for 26, you can bring your family, bring your friends, bring your dog, bring an irrepressible sense of fun.

You can let it all loose on the 20 acres of parkland, with its picnic-perfect waterfall, on the footie nets and the croquet hoops, and on the all-weather tennis court. Dog walks in the countryside, shoot some hoops on the basketball court, stay sharp in the gym.

Make like Rocket Ronnie on the full-size snooker table. Misspend the rest of your youth in the Three Arches residents’ bar, break out the barbie on the terrace, leap into the outdoor heated pool. Stream the BT Wi-Fi, bash out a ballad on the baby grand, make it a late one with Netflix or Prime as the fire crackles and your tribe bonds.

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Pool, gardens and grounds

You’ll never get tired of staring at the 20 acres from the sunny south-facing terrace. If you do, go explore it. Find the tumbling, picnic-perfect waterfall, admire the David Austen Rose Garden, kick a ball into the footie nets and smack a croquet ball through the hoops.

Bring your rackets for all-weather tennis, all year round, and bring your cossies and inflatables to mess about in the shared outdoor heated pool from April to September. Sear your steaks on the barbie and guzzle them under the gazebo. Exercise your dogs – they stay for free! Feed the ducks. Ponder what’s next down by the pond.

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Living areas

Once an ancestral home, then a prep school, and latterly the location for the shooting of BBC drama Gentleman Jack, Howard Hall has seen plenty of life and living. Now you can turn the next page and add your own chapter amid the dripping chandeliers, the high ceilings, the period wallpaper and the exquisite coving.

Today, entertainment options abound in the indoor living spaces at Howard Hall. Not least Netflix, Prime and Now TV on the living-room telly, BT broadband and log fires to light. And when you’ve finished with all that, you can talk about it all over a gin or Prosecco in the residents’ bar which you can fill with your own alcohol, with the horse-saddle stools and complimentary soft drinks.

Elsewhere, there’s plenty to stoke the fires of inter-generational competitiveness. How many manor house come with a full-size basketball court? This one does. Or badminton, for smaller numbers. Silver medal? Go for gold on the full-size snooker table. Bring late-night harmony to your group with a singalong on the baby grands.

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Cooking and dining

How many does the dining room seat? All of you. Gather round, pass the Prosecco, butter the bread and thank the cook who took charge of the fan oven, electric oven and wood-fired stove. Or hang your apron up and ask us about external caterers for a one-off celebration or fully catered break.

Fridges? Pick from three. Or fill them all with meats from Nesfield and Piercy and deliveries from Morrisons. Call up takeaway treats from Speedy Peppers, India, or Thai from Tuis of Malton. When you’re done, there’s a dishwasher to deal with the dirties. Outside, you’ve a gas barbie sitting on the sunny south-facing terrace.

Malton’s a leading UK foodie destination with a bustling artisan scene, tours, cookery school, markets and festival. Be sure to explore the gelato makers, gin distillery, breweries, coffee roastery and macaron maker. The Talbot sits at the heart of this, with imaginative local menus that include thyme-rubbed flat-iron steak.

Elsewhere, pop out to the Blacksmith’s Arms in Westow for roast sirloin of Yorkshire beef or pan-fried rack of lamb. Try miso-glazed cod loin, salt-and-pepper squid ball salad, or toasted pecan, artichoke and chilli ravioli at The New Malton. Or head for The Stone Trough in Kirkham to pork out on crispy confit duck leg or 9oz sirloin.

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Bedrooms

You’ll sleep well here in the Wolds, on the edge of the North York Moors, where the smooth hush is rippled only by the flap of a partridge, the ducks landing on the lake or the bending of the boughs. Howard Hall sleeps 26 in 12 bedrooms, with two extra sofa-beds for younger children.

Bedrooms here are delicious and bathrooms come with freestanding baths for you to drape a bubbly leg over. All rooms sleep two in kingsize beds apart from bedroom four, sleeping three kids in singles, and bedroom seven, a girls’ triple room. Bedroom 12 offers a bunk. Bedrooms one (Grey), two (Pink), four (Kids’), eight (Savannah), ten (Triangle) and 11 (Hessian) offer luxury en-suites. All other rooms share de-luxe bathrooms.

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Children welcome

British holidays add a traditional note of cosy comfort to childhoods. Accompanied by endless acres of garden to explore and room upon room of hiding places and dens, there’s a treasure trove of memories here for your tribe. They’ll wear you out all day then keep you up all night with cards and charades. Lucky you.

Out in the 20-acre garden, you’ll want to pack a picnic and head out to your very own waterfall or sit by the pond and watch the ducks land on the water. Bring your rackets so you can chase that furry ball around the tennis court. Or perhaps the air will clack to the cultured sound of croquet?

Around the grounds, you can make friends with chickens, guinea fowl and peacocks, then refresh under the gazebo when mum and dad have burned your burgers on the barbie. But the elephant in the garden has to be the 18-metre heated pool – come between April and September, bring your floaties, dive in, let a few hours wash away.

Indoors, you’ve got badminton or basketball in the sports hall and the tech’s all set up so you won’t miss a single beat. Stream on the BT broadband, catch your favourite shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV. Let the grown-ups keep an eye on you from the residents’ bar behind the lounge.

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What people say

What people say

We booked Howard Hall for a special family get together and it was just perfect. We felt at home and relaxed especially for the younger members of our party enjoying the pool and exploring the gardens and outdoor space. - Sue
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Birds, sharks and salt scrubs

Blast fake birds from the sky at Cotton Dale Shooting Ground. Paddleboard or pedalo at North Yorkshire Water Park. Or dive deep into fruity salt scrubs and dermaplaning at Number One Health and Beauty. Kids can meet the sharks at Sealife Scarborough, go back in time at the York Castle Museum, and get lost in the York Maze.

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