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Redworth Hall
Redworth Hall shown within County Durham |
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| OS grid reference | NZ239231 |
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| List of places: UK • England • County Durham | |
Redworth Hall is a 17th century country house at Redworth, Heighington, County Durham, England now converted to an hotel. It is a listed building.
Robert Surtees, a descendant of the ancient family of Surtees of Low Dinsdale Manor acquired the old manor house and estate at Redworth and carried out substantial rebuilding work in 1744, incorporating some of the 17th fabric. He created an impressive sandstone mansion of two storeys and gabled attics to which further extensions were added in 1820 by his nephew and heir, also Robert Surtees (High Sheriff of Durham in 1855).
Robert Surtees (antiquarian) of Mainforth Hall (now demolished) was a great nephew of the elder Robert.
The Surtees family lived at Redworth until the death in 1955 of Henry SB Surtees (High Sheriff in 1929).
Following a period of occupation by a residential school the house was converted to a hotel