Roddam Hall

Roddam Hall
Roddam Hall Roddam Hall shown within Northumberland
OS grid reference	NU025204
Coordinates	55°28′41″N 1°57′40″W / 55.478°N 1.961°W / 55.478; -1.961
List of places UK England Northumberland

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 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.

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

In 2012 Roddam Hall was sold by Lord Vinson to Lord James Percy, younger brother of the Duke of Northumberland.^[5]

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