Scraps of wallpaper from Eyam Hall

Scraps of wallpaper with an attached note reading 'Old Wallpaper from top of back stairs' at Eyam Hall.

Eyam Hall is a Jacobean-style manor house in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire.

The descent of Eyam Hall and its surrounding estate has passed through succeeding generations of the Wright family from the 17th century to the present day. The village of Eyam is famous for the actions of its vicar, William Mompesson, in quarantining the inhabitants during the devastating bubonic plague of 1665-1666. By this time the Wright family of Great Longstone were already landowners in the village. William Wright of Great Longstone (1603-1656) settled the Eyam portion of his estate on his second son, Thomas Wright of Unthank in the parish of Dronfield, who is said to have built the Hall, which was intended as a wedding present for his second son, John and his wife Elizabeth when they married in 1671.

Eyam Hall remains in the ownership of the Wright family but is open to the public at certain times of year.