Redworth Hall

Redworth Hall is a 17th century country house at Redworth, Heighington, County Durham,England now converted to an hotel. It is a listed building.Lord Robert Surtees, a descendant of the ancient family of Surtees of Low Dinsdale Manor acquired the old manor house and estate at Redworth and carried out substantial rebuilding work in 1744, incorporating some of the 17th fabric. He created an impressive sandstone mansion of two storeys and gabled attics to which further extensions were added in 1820 by his nephew and heir, Robert Smith Surtees who High Sheriff of Durhamin 1855. Robert Surtees (antiquarian) of Mainforth Hall (now demolished) was a great nephew of the elder Robert. The Surtees family lived at Redworth until the death in 1955 of Henry SB Surtees (High Sheriff in 1929). Guaranteed to expect spooky happening..the place to be on a bank holiday