Adderstone Hall
Adderstone Hall (
Historic England Heritage at Risk
Adderstone Hall is currently recorded on Historic England Heritage at Risk register as in poor condition and slowly decaying. It is currently empty with no current plans for restoration [1]
History
Adderstone was held by the Forster family, Governors of
The property, already leased and subsequently acquired by the Watson family, passed briefly to John W. Bacon of Staward Hall in 1763 before passing to the Watsons who were already tenants of the property. The present hall was built in 1819 to a design by architect William Burn. The first Watson to be born at Adderstone (in 1760) was Captain John Watson whose son Sir William Watson, an MP and Baron of the Exchequer (1856) married Anne, the sister of the great industrialist Lord Armstrong. Their son John William (born at Adderstone Hall 1827) had one son, Willam, who inherited Cragside and the Armstrong fortune from his great-uncle, Lord Armstrong, who had bought Bamburgh Castle in the 1894 after the death of his wife, Margaret Ramshaw, and began restoring the building in grand Victorian style, but died (in 1900) before the work was completed. Adderstone was left to his sister Dorothy who married Noel Villiers in 1903 and lived at Adderstone Hall until she died in 1961, when the property was sold for the benefit of her many nephews and nieces.
References
- ^ Heritage at risk Register https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/303361
- Historic England. "Adderstone Hall (1370965)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- The History and Antiquities of North Durham (1852) Rev James Raine MA pp307–310
- Burke's Peerage 1930