Qualla: Streatlam Castle https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Streatlam Castle https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle Streatlam Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle/ In 1959 the Territorial Army used Streatlam Castle for target practice and blew the shell apart. It was a piece of military training; it was also the end of a Baroque country house with twenty-four bedrooms, two oak drawing rooms, a yellow drawing room, a great dining room, a billiard room, a study, a gentlemen's room, and 1,198 surrounding acres in the Durham Dales. The Bowes-Lyon family - Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, eventually the in-laws of King George VI - had chosen Scotland's Glamis Castle over this one. Streatlam was simply, in the dry verdict of Country Life in 1915, "awkward and unsatisfactory." So it went.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/streatlam-castle-wp/gcww-streatlam-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Streatlam Castle: An English Seat https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle/ The Bowes family had held the house since the 15th century. By the 19th century it was one of three principal seats belonging to the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne - alongside Glamis in Forfarshire and Gibside near Gateshead. For decades after 1820 the English and Scottish bra...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/streatlam-castle-wp/gcww-streatlam-castle-an-english-seat.mp3 0:06 2 full Streatlam Castle: The Sale That Took the Country House https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle/ Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis - the future 15th Earl - had been living at Streatlam since at least 1915. The 14th Earl decided to sell. In 1922 the Daily Telegraph reported the castle and 1,198 surrounding acres on offer for £37,500, with an option on a further 4,806 acres. The...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/streatlam-castle-wp/gcww-streatlam-castle-the-sale-that-took-the-country-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Streatlam Castle: Demolition by Artillery https://qualla.com/streatlam-castle/ After the Second World War, the great houses of Britain came down by the hundreds. Heating bills, taxes, vanished domestic labour, repair bills no rent roll could meet - country house after country house was abandoned, sold, or simply destroyed. Streatlam joined the queue. In 195...

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