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Stars of the North

FOR sale for the first time since it was completed in 1835, secluded, Grade II*- listed Meldon Park sits in 36 acres of historic wooded parkland overlooking an ancient deer park at the heart of the Cookson family’s 3,800-acre Meldon Park estate, six miles from the market town of Morpeth and 20 miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Andrew Black of Savills (07967 555697) quotes a guide price of £3.5 million for the elegant Georgian house, built for Isaac Cook-son, the younger son of a successful Newcastle banker, by the prolific northern architect John Dobson, with some internal alterations by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the 1930s.

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