comments Middlethorpe Hall is one of three stately homes belonging to the National Trust’s Historic House Hotels group The 29 rooms and suites offer 'old-fashioned country-house grandeur' with four-posters and antique furniture The dinner menu is 'short and confident', with traditional produce used for dishes like Whitby crab salad At first glance, Middlethorpe Hall, a fine example of William and Mary architecture, ticks every box that you might expect from a National Trust property. So pretty is the red brick facade that it would make the perfect dolls’ house. The pristine south lawn heralds a lake beyond herbaceous borders, and walled gardens brimming with roses, irises and peonies.