Linden Hall is a former mansion house in the

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, England which is now operated as a hotel and country club. This includes an 18-hole golf course built by English golf course architect, Jonathan Gaunt, which opened in 1997. The Hall has

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status. In about 1806

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, a successful Newcastle banker, bought an estate of almost at Longhorsley, which had been owned by the family of the

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since the 12th century. In 1813 he built a mansion house on the estate for his own occupation. He retained his friend,

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, an amateur architect with a keen interest in the

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style, to design the new house with the assistance of the then newly qualified architect John Dobson. He named the new house after an adjacent stream. Financial problems arising from the failure of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank in 1857 caused his descendants to sell the estate and Hall, which were sold in 1861 to H M Ames for £72500. Thereafter the house provided a home for the

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, Ames and Adamson families until 1963. In 1978 it was sold to a company which converted it into a hotel.

References

* *Baglee,Christopher. ''Linden Hall a Concise History'', 2006

External links

History of Linden Hall

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