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Historic Buildings of County Durham
England
Image right - Rokeby Hall
Image Geograph © Copyright Clive Nicholson and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of County Durham, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up.
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Historic houses in alphabetical order
Including Castles, Abbeys, Priories, Manor Houses, Mansions, Stately Homes, Country houses, Estate houses, Courts, Halls, Parks and other listed buildings of historic interest.
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A
● Auckland Castle
B
● Beamish Hall
● Blackwell Grange Hotel
● Brancepeth Castle
C
● Croxdale Hall
D
● Dryderdale Hall
● Durham Castle
E
● Eggleston Hall
● Elemore Hall
F
G
H
● Hamsterley Hall
● Headlam Hall
● Horsley Hall
I
J
K
L
● Lambton Castle
● Lartington Hall
● Low Dinsdale Manor
● Lumley Castle
M
N
O
P
● Piercebridge Hall
● Preston Hall, Preston-on-Tees
Q
R
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Raby Castle
Image Geograph © Copyright Clive Nicholson and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
Raby Castle was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Edward IV and Richard III, was born here. After Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, led the failed Rising of the North in favour of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569 Raby Castle was taken into royal custody. Sir Henry Vane, the elder died here in 1655.
- Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard of Barnard's Castle died at the castle in 1918
● Ravensworth Castle (ruined)
● Redworth Hall
● Rokeby Park
● Rokeby Hall - located close to the confluence of the River Tees and River Greta, close to Greta Bridge in what is now County Durham. It was historically located in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Completed in 1735 by Sir Thomas Robinson, a leading amateur architect of his day, who owned it until 1769, when he sold it to J.S. Morritt, an ancestor of the current owner.
S
● Shotton Hall
● Sockburn Hall
● Streatlam Castle
T
● The Castle, Castle Eden
● The Old Hall, Hurworth-on-Tees
U-V
W
● Walworth Castle
● Witton Castle
● Whitworth Hall
● Windlestone Hall
● Wynyard Park
X-Y-Z
References and Sources
County Durham Specific
General
- Stravaiging.com
- Secret Scotland
- Canmore
- Historic Scotland
- National Trust
- English Heritage
- WIKI List of country houses in the UK
- Britain's Finest
- Britain Express
- Lankdmark Trust
- Historic Houses Association - represents 1,500 houses in the UK
- Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens - UK - guidebook of over 2,000 houses open to the public
- The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses - database of over 7,000 houses
- Lost Heritage - A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England - list of over 1,700 houses
- National Trust for Historic Preservation - online database of historic houses in the United State
- - http://www.hha.org.uk/ Historic Houses Association
- WIKI Treasure Houses of England
- List of country houses in the United Kingdom
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