Pallinsburn House

Pallinsburn House

Pallinsburn House is an 18th century country house situated at Ford, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building.

The house was built about 1763, in a Jacobean style originally with a three storey frontage, for John Askew, (High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1776), a younger son of Dr Adam Askew of Storrs Hall. The Askew family occupied the house until it was sold in 1911 to Charles Mitchell. a wealthy Tyneside shipbuilder, who carried out extensive improvements and alterations.In 1933 the third storey of the central block was removed.

The house was sold in 2004 together with 1500 acres for £6.5 million. The contents were sold at auction the following year and realised £840,000.

References

* [http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=238088&resourceID=5 English Heritage: detailed architectural description]
* [http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=238088&resourceID=3 English Heritage: Images of England]
* "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain" 4th Ed. Pt I (1862) Burke and Burke.p30. Google Books.


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