Roddam Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house near Wooler, Northumberland.
[2] A survey of 1541 reported a decaying tower house without a barmkin owned by John Roddam.
On his death the estate passed to a distant cousin, William Spencer Stanhope, who changed his name to Roddam.
In 1848, the house was desecribed as "a handsome modern mansion, standing on a bold eminence which on the north forms the bank of a deep romantic dell watered by a tributary of the Till.
Bird took off the top storey (a late, unattractive addition to the Georgian original) and dramatically reworked the interior.