{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use British English|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Ellerton Abbey House | other_name = | image = File:Ellerton Abbey. - geograph.org.uk - 160532.jpg | caption = The house in 2006, when it was a hotel. Viewed from the southeast | locmapin = United Kingdom North Yorkshire | coordinates = {{coord|54.3708|-1.88105|display=inline,title}} | location = Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England | area = Richmondshire | built = circa 1830 | architect = | architecture = Regency style | governing_body = | designation1 = Grade II listed building | designation1_offname = | designation1_date = 7 December 1966 | designation1_number = {{National Heritage List for England|num=1179255|short=yes}} }}
'''Ellerton Abbey''' '''House''' is an historic building and estate in Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England. It was built around 1830 for the Fore Erle-Drax family, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1179255|desc= Ellerton Abbey, Ellerton Abbey|access-date= 8 June 2021|mode=cs2}}</ref> The property is located at the end of a long driveway off the northern side of the B6270 Richmond Road, about {{convert|450|ft}} southwest of Ellerton Priory, now ruined.
As of 2021, the building is occupied by Ellerton Abbey Antiques and Mrs Pumphrey's Tearoom, the latter in reference to the character in the original version of the BBC television series ''All Creatures Great and Small'' who lived there with her spoiled Pekingese dog Tricki-Woo. Filming took place inside the house, which was named Barlby Grange in the series,<ref>[https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/which-yorkshire-locations-could-be-used-film-new-series-all-creatures-great-and-small-1753497 "Which Yorkshire locations could be used to film the new series of All Creatures Great and Small?"] – ''The Yorkshire Post'', 1 July 2019</ref> and in its grounds.<ref>[https://ellertonabbeyantiquesandmrspumphreys.co.uk/ Ellerton Abbey Antiques and Mrs Pumphrey's Tearoom]{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} – official website</ref>
==Drax family== Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Priory became the property of a series of people until it was purchased in the 1690s by Col. Henry Drax, a wealthy slave owner and sugar planter, of Drax Hall in Barbados, who was looking for an English estate which would produce £10,000 per annum.<ref>John Habakkuk, ''Marriage, Debt and the Estate System'' (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994), p. 455.</ref> His heir was his nephew Thomas Shatterden, of Pope's Common, Hertfordshire, son of his sister, who in accordance with the bequest adopted the surname Drax in lieu of his patronymic. His eldest son and heir was Henry Drax (c.1693–1755), a Member of Parliament<ref>R.S. Lea, 'Drax, Henry (?1693–1755), of Ellerton Abbey, Yorks. and Charborough, nr. Wareham, Dorset', in R. Sedgwick (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754'' (from Boydell and Brewer, 1970), [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/drax-henry-1693-1755 History of Parliament online].</ref> and a favourite of the Prince of Wales, who married Elizabeth Ernle, heiress of Charborough House in Dorset, which today remains the residence of his descendant Richard Drax, MP.
John Samuel Wanley Swabridge Erle-Drax built the house for his wife, Jane Frances, around 1830.<ref>[https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/18606613.ellerton-abbey-slave-owners-created-one-norths-romantic-ruins/ "Ellerton abbey: How slave owners created one of the North's most romantic ruins"] – ''The Northern Echo'', 25 July 2020</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Ellerton Abbey - geograph.org.uk - 1846298.jpg|The rear of the estate from the hills to the north, near Marrick File:Gateway to Ellerton Abbey - geograph.org.uk - 1729046.jpg|The estate's gated entrance and driveway File:Boundary stone on Ellerton Scar - geograph.org.uk - 1089142.jpg|A view of the building from Ellerton Scar, near Stainton, to the east </gallery>
==See also== *Listed buildings in Ellerton Abbey
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Category:1830 establishments in England Category:Houses completed in 1830 Category:Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category:Country houses in North Yorkshire Category:Swaledale