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Headlam Hall is a 17th-century country house at The Green, Headlam, near Gainford, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building now in use as a hotel and country club. Early residents Henry Birkbeck (1564-1637) built Headlam Hall around the time of his marriage in 1606 to Anne Brackenbury. He was the son of Thomas Birkbeck a wealthy landowner. As a present for his wife he had an elaborate oak fireplace installed in the main hall with the Birkbeck coat of arms displayed in the centre of the mantle. This feature still stands today. It was described in several early history books. John Richard Walbran in 1846 says ''it was a richly ornamented fireplace in the centre compartment of which “is a mantled shield, hearing a fess gobony, between three lions heads erased, a crescent for difference ; impaling three chevronels interlaced — the arms of Henry Birkbeck, Esq.”'' When Henry died in 1637 his only child Eleanor inherited the Hall. She married Henry Draper (1611-16 ...
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Headlam Hall
Headlam Hall is a 17th-century country house at The Green, Headlam, near Gainford, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building now in use as a hotel and country club. Early residents Henry Birkbeck (1564-1637) built Headlam Hall around the time of his marriage in 1606 to Anne Brackenbury. He was the son of Thomas Birkbeck a wealthy landowner. As a present for his wife he had an elaborate oak fireplace installed in the main hall with the Birkbeck coat of arms displayed in the centre of the mantle. This feature still stands today. It was described in several early history books. John Richard Walbran in 1846 says ''it was a richly ornamented fireplace in the centre compartment of which “is a mantled shield, hearing a fess gobony, between three lions heads erased, a crescent for difference ; impaling three chevronels interlaced — the arms of Henry Birkbeck, Esq.”'' When Henry died in 1637 his only child Eleanor inherited the Hall. She married Henry Draper (1611-16 ...
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