Mount Oswald

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Mount Oswald
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Mount Oswald in 1818
Location Durham
Coordinates 54°45′37″N1°35′10″W / 54.7602°N 1.5860°W / 54.7602; -1.5860 Coordinates: 54°45′37″N1°35′10″W / 54.7602°N 1.5860°W / 54.7602; -1.5860
Built1800
ArchitectPhillip Wyatt
Architectural style(s)Georgian
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated29 November 1973
Reference no.1310089
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Location of Mount Oswald in County Durham

Mount Oswald is a manor house in Durham, County Durham, England. The property, which is being developed for academic and residential use, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

History

Entrance to the Mount Oswald estate Entrance to Mount Oswald Golf Club, Durham - geograph.org.uk - 95277.jpg
Entrance to the Mount Oswald estate

The manor house was built for John Richardby, a London merchant, in 1800. [2] It was bought by Thomas Wilkinson (1752-1825), a former mayor of Durham, in 1806 and it then passed to the Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson (1792-1875), in 1828. [2] The Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson commissioned Phillip Wyatt to expand the house in the Georgian style in 1830. [3] [4]

Mount Oswald then passed to the Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson's son, Percival Spearman Wilkinson JP (1820-1898), before being acquired by the North Brancepeth Colliery Company in the 1890s. [2] The house was acquired by North of England Estates (a business owned by the McKeag family) in 1934: [5] North of England Estates operated the Mount Oswald estate as the Durham City Golf Club until 1967, when the golf club moved to Littleburn, and then operated it as a commercial golf course. [6] The property was then acquired by the property developers, Banks Group, for residential development in January 2014. [3]

In August 2014 Banks Group sold part of the site to Durham University who had ambitions to use it for accommodation for 1,000 students. [7] [8] The project was procured by Durham University under a private finance initiative contract in August 2018. [9] The construction works, which were undertaken by Interserve at a cost of £105 million, saw John Snow College relocating from Rushford Court, and South College, a completely new college, being created on the Mount Oswald site in September 2020. [10]

In June 2019 Durham County Council revealed plans to move the county archives from County Hall to a new history centre, which was also intended to accommodate the Durham Light Infantry Collection, in the manor house at Mount Oswald. [11] The project, which envisaged Banks Group transferring the manor house to the council for a nominal sum, was granted planning consent in September 2020. [12] In March 2020 Banks Group also applied for planning permission to convert the gatehouses into residential properties. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Mount Oswald (City Golf Club Clubhouse), Durham (1310089)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Exploring the countryside of Mount Oswald". Durham Times. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "New occupants at historic Mount Oswald Manor House through innovative 'property guardians' project". Banks Group. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Page, William (1928). "'Parishes: St Oswald's - Introduction', in A History of the County of Durham". London: British History Online. pp. 144–157. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "Jobs safe as £3m hotel sold". The Forester. 2 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "About North of England Estates" . Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  7. ↑ Justin Villamil (5 August 2014). "University to build additional 1,000 beds on Mount Oswald site". Palatinate. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Durham university reaches agreement with the Banks Group for sale of land at Mount Oswald". The Banks Group. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Interserve JV seals £105m Durham Uni DBFO deal". Construction Enquiror. 17 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Durham University colleges apply for 2am licences for events at new development". Sunderland Echo. 25 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Designs revealed for new Durham History Centre to house DLI collection". Northern Echo. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. ↑ "Approval for history centre at Durham's Mount Oswald Manor House". Northern Echo. 25 September 2020.
  13. ↑ "Durham: New home to be created from historic Mount Oswald gate houses". Northern Echo. 4 March 2020.
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