Milbourne Hall is a privately owned mansion house at Milbourne, near

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, England, which has

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status. The Bates family were a long established Northumbrian family of

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and Halliwell, Northumberland, who enjoyed intermarriage with other prominent landed famililies. Ralph Bates (1764–1813),

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in 1812 and later Deputy Lieutenant, built the house in about 1810 to a design by Edinburgh architect John Patterson. It was built in a Georgian architecture Georgian style in local stone, around an octagonal courtyard and features unusual internal arrangements including a rotunda salon. In 1891 Georgiana Elliot (née Bates) bequeathed the estate to her grandson Ralph Mortimer (High Sheriff in 1916). As of November 2021, Milbourne Hall was on the market for £3,950,000.

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*'' History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1835) Vol I p623 () Grade I listed buildings in Northumberland Country houses in Northumberland {{Northumberland-struct-stub