Nether Grange
18th century
Nether Grange was originally a granary in the coastal village of Alnmouth. Alnmouth was a thriving grain port in the 18th century, exporting grain, wool, coal, and Madeira wine.
It was most likely that Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan, Justice of the Peace and later High Sheriff of Northumberland, converted the granary into a spacious family house for his wife, seven children, teacher, five servants, and coachman in the 1870s. He replaced many of the original features, adding a new grand staircase between the ground and first floors. This was lit by a stained-glass window that remains today – you’ll notice how one pane has the initials CHC as a stamp of ownership.
Nether Grange was then purchased by banker John William Pease in 1875 and used as a family holiday home. His son John was Baron Wardington of Alnmouth and later Chairman of Lloyds Bank while his daughter Ella was a school governor and Chair of the parish council (the nearby Pease’s Park at the back of the village on Riverside Road largely owes its origin to her). The house was later reimagined as a hotel and has been part of our HF Holidays lineup since 1947.
Nether Grange
18th century
Nether Grange was originally a granary in the coastal village of Alnmouth. Alnmouth was a thriving grain port in the 18th century, exporting grain, wool, coal, and Madeira wine.
It was most likely that Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan, Justice of the Peace and later High Sheriff of Northumberland, converted the granary into a spacious family house for his wife, seven children, teacher, five servants, and coachman in the 1870s. He replaced many of the original features, adding a new grand staircase between the ground and first floors. This was lit by a stained-glass window that remains today – you’ll notice how one pane has the initials CHC as a stamp of ownership.
Nether Grange was then purchased by banker John William Pease in 1875 and used as a family holiday home. His son John was Baron Wardington of Alnmouth and later Chairman of Lloyds Bank while his daughter Ella was a school governor and Chair of the parish council (the nearby Pease’s Park at the back of the village on Riverside Road largely owes its origin to her). The house was later reimagined as a hotel and has been part of our HF Holidays lineup since 1947.