Lowlands, West Woodburn

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2023 Situation and Description

Lowlands is an impressive, detached country house set in a beautiful garden setting overlooking the River Rede. The original house, dating from the 17th century, was the Mill House in the village with a grand stone built wing added later in the 19th century. This special country house, stone built with a slate roof, offers well proportioned and versatile accommodation over two floors, with five reception rooms and five double bedrooms. The house has a lovely mix of period features with more contemporary decor - with original marble fireplaces and a cast iron range, decorative ceiling coving and wood panelling, alongside the more minimalist decor of the sitting and garden rooms.

1881 Situation and Description

SALE OF THE MANSION OF LOWLANDS This jewel of a residence contains dining, drawing and breakfast rooms, vestibule ornate, four lodging rooms, well arranged domestic apartments, and out-offices (lavatories), gardens, vinery, and ornamental grounds, trout stream, and famed salmon pool within cast of the grounds – the whole in the most scrupulous order

1903 Sale of Furniture of late Mrs. Rudd of Lowlands

Auction of the whole of the Valuable HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS within the residence of Lowlands, comprising the contents of drawing room, dining room, smoke room, four bedrooms, kitchens, etc. included are many exceptional examples of 18th Century Antique Furniture, Derby, Spode, Copeland, and Oriental Decorative China, and Fore’s Stable Scenes after J. F. Herring, sen.

1915 Lowlands To Let Furnished

Summer months, two sitting, five bedrooms, conservatory, kitchens, bathroom, etc. Gardens, Fishing, station 15 minutes’ walk, Hall, Lowlands, West Woodburn.

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1916 SALE OF PART OF THE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, property of Mr. David Hall.

1868 An Edward Richardson is recorded at Lowland House, Monkwearmouth

Lowlands was probably built / extended / named c.1870 by William Hodgson Rudd (1828-1878) a landed proprietor of Lowland House [farm] at Monkwearmouth. He died aged 50 at Lowlands on 8th January 1878 and his widow Margaret put up a stained glass window in Corsenside Church. She put Lowlands up for sale in 1881 but either there were no buyers or she decided to stay on. She died at Lowlands on 14th June 1903.