Elsham Hall had been in perfect order in 1939 when the house was used by Rudolph Elwes family and other family members and friends, it was later requisitioned as an Anti-Aircraft HQ and then left empty and unheated.
Damage to the amount of £30,000 had been done to the fittings, furniture and the structure itself. Added to this the ravages of dry rot that had spread to many parts of the building including one wing, the servants quarters and the billiard room comprising another wing, almost one third of the total edifice were effected irreparably.
As the house was too large the two wings were demolished. In 1949 Jeremy and Nicholas, both bachelor brothers took up residence. They converted the upstairs part of the house into a flat with a sitting room, dining room, kitchen and six bedrooms
In addition to the family painting hung all over the Hall there is a beautifully designed library including interesting books of reference on Lincolnshire. The actual date of the building of the original Hall is obscure but the site must have been occupied for hundreds of years. During alterations in 1828 an unknown stone coffin was excavated next to he Hall which may support the theory that this was a site if the Old Priory. There is also an orangery next to the Hall, with three arched windows in a rusticated and divided by Doric columns. The entablature breaks, and there is a pedimented pavilions with lower links. They are now being used for the Wrawby Moor Gallery.
