Milbourne Hall is a privately owned mansion house at Milbourne, near

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, England, which has

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status. The Bates family were a long established Northumbrian family of

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and Halliwell, Northumberland, who enjoyed intermarriage with other prominent landed famililies. Ralph Bates (1764–1813),

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in 1812 and later Deputy Lieutenant, built the house in about 1810 to a design by Edinburgh architect John Patterson. It was built in a Georgian architecture Georgian style in local stone, around an octagonal courtyard and features unusual internal arrangements including a rotunda salon. In 1891 Georgiana Elliot (née Bates) bequeathed the estate to her grandson

Ralph Mortimer Sir Ralph George Elphinstone Mortimer (7 July 1869 – 3 May 1955) was an English landowner and public servant who had a fleeting career as a first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Lancashire. He was born in New ...

(High Sheriff in 1916). As of November 2021, Milbourne Hall was on the market for £3,950,000.

References

*'' History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1835) Vol I p623 () Grade I listed buildings in Northumberland Country houses in Northumberland {{Northumberland-struct-stub