Roddam Hall

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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[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 (1720-1808) ( Commander in Chief Portsmouth 1789, Admiral of the Red 1795). He was a brother-in-law of General Sir Henry Clinton (1738–1795). 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.

The house was reduced to only two storeys[4] in the 20th century.


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Keys to the Past
  2. ^ a b Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (Vol 1 (1835) p 675 Google Books
  3. ^ Gatehouse Gazetteer
  4. ^ English Heritage: Images of England photograph 2004