Roddam Hall
| Roddam Hall | |
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  Location in Northumberland | |
| General information | |
| Location | Northumberland, England |
| Coordinates | 55°28′41″N 1°57′40″W / 55.478°N 1.961°W |
| OS grid | NU025204 |
Roddam Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house near Wooler, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The Roddams, an ancient Northumbrian family, held lands at Roddam in ancient times.[2] A survey of 1541 reported a decaying tower house without a barmkin owned by John Roddam. The Roddams lived at Houghton in Northumberland until the early 18th century, when Edward Roddam sold the Houghton estate[2] and built a new three-storey five-bayed house at Roddam.[1]
From 1776 the house was owned by Admiral Robert Roddam. He was a brother-in-law of General Sir Henry Clinton (1730–1795). On his death the estate passed to a distant cousin, William Spencer Stanhope, who changed his name to Roddam. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1834.
Roddam was remodelled in the early 1970s by the noted neo-classical architect Tom Bird (of Bird & Tyler Associates). Bird took off the top storey (a late, unattractive addition to the Georgian original) and dramatically reworked the interior.[3]
In 2012 Roddam Hall was sold by Lord Vinson to Lord James Percy, younger brother of the Duke of Northumberland.[4]
References
- ^ a b Keys to the Past
- ^ a b Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (Vol 1 (1835) p 675 Google Books
- ^ English Heritage: Images of England photograph 2004
- ^ The Journal (Newcastle) online