Windlestone Hall

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Windlestone Hall is a country house in the village of Rushyford in County Durham, England . The building from the 19th century has English Heritage as historical building II *. Grade listed.

The Eden family , who ruled Windlestone in the 17th century, were royalist during the English Civil War and Colonel Robert Eden , who had served in the royal army, was forced to come to an agreement with the authorities to return his confiscated property. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, his grandson, who was also called Robert Eden , was promoted to baronet in 1672 .

In 1835 the 5th Baronet, Robert Johnson Eden , had the 16th century manor house replaced by a new country house designed by Ignatius Bonomi . The balustraded entrance front with 12 bays faces east. A Doric colonnade , also provided with a balustrade, extends over 9 bays of the ground floor. On the north side the building ends in a large apse . In the middle of the 19th century, a billiard room was added to the northeast.

After the death of the 5th Baronet in 1844, the property and the title of baronet fell to his second nephew, Sir William Eden , the fourth Eden of the Baronets of Maryland. He was High Sheriff of Durham in 1848 .

In this house in 1897 Anthony Eden was born, who came in 1923 as a Conservative member of parliament, later became cabinet minister and from 1955-1957 held the office of prime minister. When he died in 1977, he was living in Wiltshire .

During World War II , the house served as a prisoner of war camp , a branch of the Harperley POW camp 93 . From 1957 to 2006 the school of the same name, a local special school, was housed in Windlestone Hall. After the school closed, the county government sold the property to William Davenport, a private investor, for £ 240,000 in 2011. The County Durham County Council has been criticized for the sale, particularly when Windlestone Hall was up for sale again three years later for £ 2,500,000 - more than ten times that amount.

Davenport, an investor, was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in 2016 for using forged documents to purchase the house and property.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Windlestone Hall . Images of England. English Heritage.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 19, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.imagesofenfgland.org.uk  
  2. ^ A b Edward Kimber, Richard Johnson: The Baronetage of England Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Baronets now existing . Volume 2. 1771. pp. 368-370.
  3. ↑ Sir Anthony Eden . GOV.UK. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Windlestone Hall up for £ 2.5m after Durham County Council sale . BBC News Online November 4, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  5. ^ William Davenport jailed for Windlestone Hall mortgage fraud . BBC News Online, September 28, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2016.

Coordinates: 54 ° 39 ′ 10.8 "  N , 1 ° 35 ′ 34.8"  W.