e have two comfortable guest rooms, both are individually and attractively decorated and furnished and well equipped with controllable central heating, hospitality trays, hairdryers and clock radios, plus lots of extras. Bilberry Room Twin bedded room on the first floor with ensuite bathroom. Lovely view over the village to Bilberry Hill. Garden Room Ground floor double bedded room with ensuite shower room. This room has just been refurbished. By prior arrangement breakfast can be served in the room if you have difficulty with stairs. Guest Sitting Room A comfortable, well furnished room where you can relax after a hard days walking or sightseeing. For your enjoyment we provide: TV, video and DVD with a selection of films and local interest videos. Extensive local information including maps and walking guides. A selection of board games. A large home library with a wide range of books. Dining Room The round window and the floor to ceiling book shelves add character to the separate dining area. £30 per person per night. Special rates for all inclusive stays. Menu We are open January to December (excluding Christmas) Dogs welcome by prior arrangement

Silverton House provides unusual and very comfortable bed and breakfast accommodation. You can expect personal service, careful attention to detail and excellent food. Orginally built as a workhouse it has an interesting history. You can find our more is situated on a quiet country lane and surrounded by fields and hills, but is an easy walk from the village centre. The garden is a blaze of colour throughout the Spring and Summer. You are welcome to sit on the patio and enjoy the fresh country air. within Northumberland to visit the many attractions, including Cragside, Alnwick Castle and Garden, Holy Island and Hadrian's Wall. Walkers can choose from the many local routes starting from the house. Your dog is welcome but please let us know in advance. All food is home cooked and sourced locally whenever possible, sample our freshly made organic bread at breakfast time and choose from our wide breakfast menu to suit all tastes. Evening meals are cooked to order and geared to individual preferences, you are welcome to bring your own wine. Packed lunches can be ordered the day before required. Please take a look around our website and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to

Buffet including a selection of cereals, fresh fruit, dried fruit, yoghurt, local cheese from Doddington Dairy. Porridge from Heatherslaw Mill Fruit juice. Grilled Bacon (home cured when available) Sausage (from prize winning Rothbury Family Butcher) Black Pudding, Fried Egg, Tomato and Mushrooms Vegetarian Sausages Poached or Scrambled Egg on Toast Boiled Eggs Mushrooms or Tomatoes on Toast Scrambled egg with Smoked Salmon from Robsons of Craster Craster Kippers. All eggs are free range and locally produced. Organic Homemade Bread using Gilchester Mill flour Fresh or toasted Homemade Marmalade Jam made from our own home grown fruit. Coffee, Decaffinated Coffee Yorkshire Tea, Speciality Teas Hot chocolate

Click here for a map to Silverton House ilverton House is centrally located for visiting all the attractions of the lovely county of Northumberland. The unspoiled and spectacular coastline, with its exciting new. Hadrian's Wall and the Cheviot Hills are all within easy driving distance. Approximate driving times: We are in a quiet and peaceful, rural situation with lovely views of fields and hills, but only a short walk from the interesting shops, galleries and friendly pubs and cafes in the centre of distance you will find: Lordenshaws Hill Fort. Riverside, Moorland and Hill Walks. Floodlit Tennis Courts

n 20th September the Rothbury Board of Guardians purchased a site for a new workhouse on Silverton Lane to the south of the town. The conveyance named the sellers of the land as the Most Nobel Henry George Percy, Duke of Northumberland and the Honourable Henry Algernon George Percy. By the following year, a new workhouse and school had been erected in the Rothbury Board of Guardians invited tenders for a water supply to the building. The new workhouse could accommodation 50 inmates. The main building at the centre of the site was two-storey block with the master and matrons accommodation at the centre, men's day room and dormitories to the east, and women's to the west. To the rear was a single-storey service block containing a wash-house, laundry, kitchen, shed, and mortuary. There was large separate annex to the south - possibly a casual ward for vagrants. the site layout can be seen on the. by which time the workhouse had become officially known as Rothbury Poor Law Institution. In around 1932, a separate single-storey timber built school room was added to the west of the main workhouse. By 1941, the establishment had been renamed Silverton House and was a home for forty-five young mental defectives, including fourteen epileptics. The patients' education was provided by the chief male nurse, together with one of the older girl patients, and activities included a percussion band. Advice from Board of Control inspectors was that teaching should concentrate on practical skills such as doing up buttons and shoelaces rather than reading and writing. The present owners, John Maggie Wallace, bought the property in 1990, when it was divided into three units. They have undertaken all the conversions and restoration work themselves. The above information was kindly supplied by Peter Higginbotham, to visit Peter's website which contains more about the history of workhouses.

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