Tyne and Wear HER(8476): Ford Hall - Details
8476
Sunderland
Ford Hall
Ford
NZ35NE
Domestic
House
Country House
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
George Mowbray built Ford Hall in 1785 on land acquired by his father, Teasdale Mowbray, from the Hiltons of Hylton Castle. Six years later it was sold to John Goodchild for £14,500. Goodchild lived on the adjoining Pallion Estate and let the house to the Havelock family. Their son, born at Ford in 1795, was destined to become General Havelock, the hero of Lucknow. John Goodchild's bank failed in 1816 and the house passed to the Fenwick family. Their descendents sold it to the Corporation of Sunderland in 1924 with 174 acres of land. By this time it had been empty for 20 years and the Corporation demolished it.
3687
5680
NZ36875680
P. Meadows and E. Waterson, 1993, Lost Houses of County Durham, p 44