Roddam Hall
| Roddam Hall | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NU025204 |
| Location: | 55°28’41"N, 1°57’40"W |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Private |
Roddam Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house near Wooler in Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The Roddams, an ancient Northumberland 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.[3] The Roddams lived at Houghton until the early 18th century when Edward Roddam sold the Haughton 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.
In the 20th century the house was reduced to only two storeys.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Keys to the Past
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (Vol 1 (1835) p 675 Google Books
- ↑ Gatehouse Gazetteer
- ↑ National Heritage List 1370895: Roddam Hall