Estate Management Couple in Yorkshire

On behalf of our private client, we are looking for an exceptional couple to take the helm of a beautiful privately-owned country house in Nun Monkton.

This is a hands-on hospitality role: running the house to the very highest standards of service, food, and guest experience, driving it to become the UK's best country house destination for corporate groups, private celebrations, and family gatherings alike. It will be the first time in its 350-year history that the property will be available to let to the public.

Set within a sweeping Yorkshire landscape and backing directly onto a river, this handsome country house is set in beautiful grounds boasting immaculate flower gardens and a river frontage — the kind of property that stops guests in their tracks. Meticulously appointed across eleven bedrooms, the estate offers an unrivalled setting for exclusive retreats and corporate gatherings of distinction. It includes:

• Multiple reception rooms, from a formal dining room to areas suited to relaxing with family or holding workshops


• Fully equipped kitchen with scope to include additional equipment to cater for large groups


• Tennis and squash courts


• Heated outdoor swimming pool and pool house (with scope to convert into a bar, entertaining space, or sauna)


• A kitchen garden to source fresh ingredients for the chef


• Plans to add further leisure facilities including a plunge pool and yoga studio

We are looking for a proven couple with genuine hospitality credentials — people who have owned or managed a country house hotel, a boutique inn, or a quality pub or restaurant with rooms, and who understand both the commercial imperative of driving bookings, managing yield, and building a reputation that keeps the calendar full, alongside the personal warmth that great hospitality demands.

Main duties include, but are not limited to:

• One partner must be an accomplished chef, comfortable cooking for groups to a high standard and designing seasonal menus that inspire, whether for a laid-back family supper or a multi-course corporate dinner.


• The other will lead on front-of-house, guest relations, bookings, and operational management.


• You will be energetic, entrepreneurial, and genuinely warm. You will thrive on the responsibility of running something beautiful and making it better. You will care about the reviews — in the very best possible way.

Salary: Starting from £120,000 gross per year combined

Start date: 1st September 2026

Accommodation: The couple will be provided with a separate private cottage on the estate — a proper home in one of England's most beautiful counties — as part of the package. The cottage can be either two or three bedrooms.

Please note: Couples with pets and dependants are welcome.

Unless otherwise specified a minimum of 2 years relevant experience is required to receive the advertised rate of pay.

Randolphs is an employment agency and employment business authorized to advertise the role on behalf of our client.