The village itself was likely centred on Church Lane, being part of the ancient road that linked the River Tees to Guisborough and Stokesley.

It is possible, therefore, that the grange farmhouse may have occupied the site of the 17th-century house built by the Pennymans and now incorporated into the present Ormesby Hall.

The records from Gisborough Priory suggest that the grange was accompanied by a settlement consisting of two rows of properties facing each other across Church Lane.

[4] A surviving remnant of the original Ormesby village is the High Street's 18th-century Sundial Row, a terrace of ex-almshouses and stables which are now private houses.

Alongside the almshouses is a betting shop which was once a school, it bears the inscription: THIS PUBLICK SCHOOL HOUSE WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1744 AND REBUILT IN 1773.These buildings, together with the Grade I listed National Trust property, Ormesby Hall form the centrepieces to a conservation area.

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.

Jubilee Bank was created as a row of twenty-eight estate workers' cottages to replace the four previous buildings.

In the 2023 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:[15] The manor of Ormesby was acquired by the Pennyman family when they bought up lands formerly owned by Gisborough Priory.

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.

Only minor alterations and extensions were carried out to Ormesby Hall, but the adjacent St Cuthbert's Parish Church was largely rebuilt.

Elizabeth Brown paid for the erection of the church's tower, spire and her own cast-iron railed (grade II listed) churchyard monument.