Seaham Hall
Seaham Hall is a country house in Seaham in County Durham, England . It once belonged to George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry , although he lived most of his life in Plas Machynlleth , his second wife's home in Montgomeryshire . Today the house is a wellness hotel.
history
Seaham Hall was one of many properties that Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , acquired through his second marriage to Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest . She was one of the greatest land shepherds of her time. She inherited lands with an area of almost 260 km².
The title of Viscount Seaham was created as a courtesy title for the eldest son from this marriage, who became the next Earl Vane after the death of his father. But when the 4th Marquess of Londonderry died childless, Earl Vane inherited the Londonderry titles and the eldest son assumed the courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh .
The family did not spend much time in this house, instead using the more representative Mount Stewart as an apartment. In 1815 the poet married Lord Byron , the Anne Isabella Milbanke Seaham Hall.
The politician Benjamin Disraeli visited Seaham Hall in 1861.
The Londonderrys developed one of their properties in County Durham into what is now the port city of Seaham . This settlement should compete with the nearby Sunderland .
During the First World War , the house became a hospital, which was not closed until 1978. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was converted first into a hotel, then into a nursing home and finally into a wellness hotel.
In 1984 the Jalal (Mr Kusia Jalal) family from Sunderland bought the house and worked on rebuilding, renovating and bringing the derelict building back to its former glory. Kusia Jalal's vision, will and entrepreneurship, using local, knowledgeable craftsmen to develop a facility that was largely lost, was key to the house's survival. It opened in 1985 as the Seaham Hall Hotel and stayed in the hands of the Anglo-Arab Jalal family for almost six years, giving Seaham people the chance to experience the old house and estate again.
In 1991 the Jalal family sold the hotel to Dr. Mullier , a local doctor who also owned the Tara House , a private retirement home . Seaham Hall has also been converted into a home for the elderly, albeit a nursing home.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 52.8 " N , 1 ° 20 ′ 42" W.