Qualla: Sledmere House https://qualla.com/sledmere-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sledmere House https://qualla.com/sledmere-house Sledmere House: Introduction https://qualla.com/sledmere-house/ The house was already burning when villagers reached Sir Tatton Sykes, the 5th Baronet, and tried to alert him. He was finishing a milk pudding. By family legend he barely looked up. Estate workers ran past him into the smoke to carry out pictures, statues, china, even doors and banisters torn from their hinges. They saved the 1780 copy of the Apollo Belvedere. Moments after they cleared the building, the roof of Sledmere House fell in. The year was 1911, the fire was catastrophic, and the milk-pudding story is the kind of detail no novelist would dare invent.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/e/sledmere-house-wp/gcxe-sledmere-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sledmere House: A Trader's Dream in Stone https://qualla.com/sledmere-house/ Three generations of Sykes built the fortune that built the house. William Sykes migrated from Cumberland in the sixteenth century and prospered as a cloth trader. Daniel moved into Hull shipping. Richard cornered a piece of the Baltic pig-iron trade. By 1751 the family had enoug...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/e/sledmere-house-wp/gcxe-sledmere-house-a-traders-dream-in-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full Sledmere House: Capability Brown's Last Yorkshire Plan https://qualla.com/sledmere-house/ Sir Christopher Sykes, the 2nd Baronet, expanded everything his uncle had begun. He bought up land, enclosed huge tracts for cultivation, planted twenty-five hundred more acres of trees, and moved the entire village of Sledmere out of his sightlines. He added two wings to the hou...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/e/sledmere-house-wp/gcxe-sledmere-house-capability-browns-last-yorkshire-plan.mp3 0:06 3 full Sledmere House: The Turkish Room https://qualla.com/sledmere-house/ Of all the spaces in the restored house, the Turkish Room is the strangest. Sir Mark Sykes, the 6th Baronet, traveller and diplomat, wanted a room that would carry him back to one of the sultan's apartments at the Yeni Mosque in Istanbul. He commissioned an Armenian artist, David...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/e/sledmere-house-wp/gcxe-sledmere-house-the-turkish-room.mp3 0:06 4 full Sledmere House: Memorials in Stone https://qualla.com/sledmere-house/ The Sykes family did not stop at the house. On Garton Hill, along the B1252 road that climbs the Wolds, friends and neighbours raised a 120-foot stone monument in 1865 to Sir Tatton Sykes, the 4th Baronet, who had been the local titan of his generation. His grandson Sir Mark, the...

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