Shandy Hall

Shandy Hall

Shandy Hall, a high-gabled stone building with a garden

Shandy Hall from the main road
Location within North Yorkshire
Established 1968
Coordinates 54°11′19″N 1°11′15″W / 54.188650°N 1.187500°W
Type Historic house
Key holdings First editions of Laurence Sterne's works
Curator Patrick Wildgust
For the homestead museum in Ohio, see Shandy Hall (Ohio).

Shandy Hall was the home of the Rev. Laurence Sterne, who is famous for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England. Sterne lived there from 1760 to 1768 as perpetual curate of Coxwold.

The house was originally built in about 1450 as a medieval long hall. It is a small building, with a mossy stone-covered roof, wide gables, and massive chimney-stacks, originally a timber-framed open-hall house considerably altered in the 17th century. The stone tablet above its doorway states that Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey at Shandy Hall. This is not entirely accurate, for two volumes of Tristram Shandy had already been published in 1759 before Sterne moved to Coxwold.

The house is a Grade I listed building. It was extended and altered internally for Sterne and subject to restoration in 1960. The Hall is now administered by the Laurence Sterne Trust, a registered charity,[1] and is open to the public.[2] Shandy Hall featured in the 2006 film A Cock and Bull Story, which was based on Sterne's book Tristram Shandy.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ The Laurence Sterne Trust, Registered Charity no. 529593 at the Charity Commission
  2. ↑ "Laurence Sterne Trust". http://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/''. Laurence Sterne Trust. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall-history.php

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Coordinates: 54°11′19″N 1°11′15″W / 54.188650°N 1.187500°W