Dissington Hall
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Dissington Hall is a privately owned country mansion, now a wedding and conference centre, situated on the banks of the River Pont at North Dissington, Ponteland, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The manor of North Dissington was for centuries the seat of the Delaval family. An earlier house on the site was the birthplace of Admiral Ralph Delaval (d 1707) and of Admiral George Delaval who built Seaton Delaval Hall.
Admiral Ralph Delaval sold the property in 1673 to Edward Collingwood of Byker. In 1794 a later Edward Collingwood (1734-1806) a barrister and coal mine owner of Chirton, Northumberland commissioned architect William Newton to build a new mansion house on the site. When he died without children he bequeathed the estate to a nephew Edward Spencer-Stanhope on condition that he change his name to Collingwood. The Collingwood family owned the property until 1955 although it was mainly let out to tenants after 1867.
The property was improved about 1820 when a Tuscan porch was added. The stable block is separately scheduled as a Grade II listed building
The Hall was bought by its present owners as a restoration project in 1968.
