Earlier Houses: There was at least one earlier house on, or near, the site of the current house.

Built / Designed For: Isaac Cookson III

House & Family History: In 2022 the house, together with 36 acres, was listed for sale for £3.5 million (the Cookson family will keep the larger 3,800-acre Meldon Park Estate).

Collections: Some of the contents of Meldon were auctioned in Feb of 2023 by Bonhams in Edinburgh and Railtons of Northumberland.

Garden & Outbuildings: Meldon has a famous collection of rhododendrons and a fine kitchen garden. The Morpeth Hunt was founded here in 1818.

John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. II, p. 242, 1853.

Country Life: CXXXIX, 406, 1966.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSES: Heron family, here from the 14th until the 17th century. Sir William Fenwick, 17th century. James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, until 1716. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Isaac Cookson III, 19th century; James Cookson, until 2022; Cookson family here from 1833 until 2022.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: No

Phone: 01670-772-341

Historic Houses Member: No