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later reported that the Hall had been purchased by
Carlauren, a property developer, for £850,000; it intended to turn the Hall into a high-end care home and attracted £8.5m in investment through the sale of 53 residential units which investors would lease to care-home residents. The BBC reported in
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William Davenport in 2011. Durham County Council was criticised for the sale, especially when Windlestone Hall was put back on the market three years later for £2,500,000 – over ten times the previous sale price. Davenport was jailed for 6 years in 2016 for using forged documents to acquire a
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Windlestone Park Estate Preservation Trust purchased the site in July 2020, but the grant of planning permission will see an immediate start to the major works at the site.
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149:Designated
104:54°39′11″N
1189:The Crown
1157:The Queen
695:mausoleum
340:Rushyford
316:in 1848.
294:colonnade
259:Royalists
230:Rushyford
107:1°35′35″W
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217:NZ263287
78:Location
271:baronet
248:History
238:England
211:OS grid
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161:1160327
86:England
1098:Family
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1125:(son)
963:2021
937:2021
892:2016
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786:2010
610:1936
602:1920
594:1897
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