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<p>Oswald House, Durham.  
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Built in about 1800 for John Richardby, a London merchant.  Sold in 1806 to Thomas Wilkinson of Brancepeth, a former mayor of Durham.  Sold again in 1828 to Wilkinson's cousin Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson of Belmont, who had architect Phillip Wyatt convert the house into a full-scale mansion, Mount Oswald.  The house has been the home of Durham City Golf Club since 1928, but (as of 2014) there are proposals to redevelop the site for housing. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/durhammemories/1995243.print/">[1]</a></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Preston_Neale" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Preston Neale"><span title="English architectural and landscape draughtsman">John Preston Neale</span></a>
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