Roddam Hall

Roddam Hall is a privately owned 18th century country house near Wooler, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building. [http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N3569 Keys to the Past] ]

The Roddams , an ancient Northumbrian family, held lands at Roddam in ancient times." Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" (Vol 1 (1835) p 675 Google Books] . A survey of 1541 reported a decaying tower house without a barmkin owned by John Roddam [ [http://www.ecastles.co.uk/philipdavis/English%20sites/2273.html Gatehouse Gazetteer] ] .The Roddams lived at Houghton until the early 18th century when Edward Roddam sold the Haughton estate and built a new three storey five bayed house at Roddam.

From 1776 the house was owned by Admiral Robert Roddam (1720-1808) ( Commander in Chief Portsmouth 1789, Admiral of the Red 1795). He was a brother-in-law of General Sir Henry Clinton (1738–1795). 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 [ [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=237563&mode=quick English Heritage: Images of England photograph 2004] ] in the 20th century.

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