1900s

Miss Elizabeth Caroline Brown, who died in 1905, was a noted local benefactor and paid for the erection of a number of buildings in Ormesby including Ormesby House and the now demolished Ormesby School.

Ormesby Hall estate built a row of three brick and tile cottages, where numbers 2–6 Church Lane are now located, at the beginning of the 20th century. Some thirty years later, to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935, Colonel Pennyman pulled down the old Black Lion Inn and the cottages on Church Lane to erected Jubilee Bank.

Jubilee Bank was created as a row of twenty-eight estate workers' cottages to replace the four previous buildings. Architects, Kitching & Co of Middlesbrough, designed both rows in the fashionable Arts and Crafts vernacular style. A row of four cottages, opposite Ormesby House, were demolished in the 1960s. Mudd's Cottage, currently numbered 38, and the old Vicarage (now known as Hambleton House) still survive.

Ormesby was an ancient parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It included the townships of Eston, Morton, Normanby and Upsall, as well as a township of Ormesby covering the village itself but also stretching northwards to the banks of the River Tees. Each township became a separate civil parish in 1866.^[8]

The northernmost tip of Ormesby township, covering the banks of the Tees, was added to the borough of Middlesbrough in 1858.^[9] The rest of the township of Ormesby was made a local government district in 1865, governed by a local board.^[10] Such local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts in 1894.^[11] The urban district of Ormesby saw significant development at its northern end close to Middlesbrough, in an area which became known as North Ormesby. The south of the district, including the old village of Ormesby, remained more rural. As such it was decided in 1913 to split Ormesby; North Ormesby was absorbed into Middlesbrough, whilst the parish of Ormesby was reduced to just cover the southern more rural parts and was downgraded from an urban district to a rural parish within the Middlesbrough Rural District.^[12] When the Middlesbrough Rural District was abolished in 1932, Ormesby passed to the Stokesley Rural District.^[8]

The parish of Ormesby was abolished in 1968, becoming part of the short-lived County Borough of Teesside. Six years later in 1974 the county borough was abolished and replaced by the larger new county of Cleveland, which was divided into districts. North Ormesby went back to a re-established borough of Middlesbrough as it had been prior to 1968, whilst the area of the pre-1968 parish of Ormesby was included in the Langbaurgh district (renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees in 1988), but the parish of Ormesby was not re-established, instead becoming an unparished area. Cleveland was abolished in 1996 and the district council became a unitary authority, changing its name to Redcar and Cleveland at the same time.

2023 local elections results

In the 2023 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:^[13]

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Memorial

Ormesby Hall

The manor of Ormesby was acquired by the Pennyman family when they bought up lands formerly owned by Gisborough Priory. As soon as the first parcel of land was acquired, in about 1600, they set about building what would have been little more than a large farmhouse and was probably on the site of the medieval grange buildings. More of the surrounding land was bought until the family owned the whole manor of Ormesby.

They had to sell the land's eastern half in 1715, only to buy it again in 1771 and sold it again to a John Brown of Liverpool. This subdivision of the estate inevitably influenced the way in which Ormesby developed over the next 200 years.^[14] With some of the Ormesby manor changing hands, more than once, a second house was built by the new owners, in the 1700s.

From the Victorian period the park was used by the Pennyman family, as well as the local community, for sports, with cricket and football in the summer (the cricket pitch remains) and golf in the winter months. Horticultural shows, garden fetes and political rallies followed. The Hall was, from 1664 until 1852, the seat of the Pennyman of Ormesby baronetcy.

Today, Ormesby Hall, is open to the public. The stable block housed the horses of the Cleveland Police Mounted Section, until it was disbanded in 2013.^[15]

Ormesby House

Rebuilding on the former 18th century Ormesby Manor House's site, a new Ormesby Manor House was built in 1904 by its owner, Miss Elizabeth Caroline Brown. The architect, Fred Rowntree, designed the detached house in a Jacobethan style with red brick, concrete dressings and to be set back into its gardens. It is probable that the subterranean remains of the house survive under the early 20th century house.