Pallinsburn House is an 18th-century country house situated at Ford

Ford, Northumberland

Ford is a small village in Northumberland, England, about from Berwick-upon-Tweed. Ford shares a parish with Etal.- History Pre-1513 :Very little is known of the history of the area before the Norman Conquest in the 11th century, but Bronze Age rock carvings in the area suggest that there might...

, Northumberland

Northumberland

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. It is a Grade II* listed building.

The house was built about 1763, in a Jacobean style

Jacobean architecture

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 originally with a three-storey frontage, for John Askew, (High Sheriff

High Sheriff

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of Northumberland in 1776), a younger son of Dr Adam Askew of Storrs Hall. The Askew family occupied the house until it was sold in 1911 to Charles Mitchell, a wealthy Tyneside shipbuilder, who carried out extensive improvements and alterations. In 1933 the third storey of the central block was removed.

The house was sold in 2004 together with 1500 acres (6.1 km²) for £6.5 million.http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/Pallinsburns-contents-sale-one-of.991266.jp The contents were sold at auction the following year and realised £840,000.http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pallinsburn+House+treasures+fetch+pounds+840,000-a0132142221