Windlestone Hall is an abandoned 19th Century Country House located in County Durham. A manor house has stood at the site since the 1600’s, however, the main building was replaced with the current structure in 1835 with a new mansion by the design of Ignatius Bonomi. The house was also used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. After the War years, the Hall was utilised by Windlestone Hall School which was a local authority funded special school. The school finally closed in 2006 and stood empty for a period of time before it was then sold to a Mr William Davenport, a property investor in 2011. Mr Davenport was later jailed in 2016 having been found to have used forged documents in order to purchase the property for the sum of \u00a3240,000.00 only to later advertise the property for sale at \u00a32,500,000.00 more than ten times the price he had paid for the building.<\/p>\n
After Mr Davenport was detained the property was sold again prior to being put up for auction for a reported sum of \u00a3400,000.00. Enjoy the photos I managed to capture below just before the building saw a significant increase in security presence on account of the heavy vandalism which took place shortly before my trip here:<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t