Pemberton Arms, Cold Hesledon (White House)

Richard Pemberton descendant of John Pemberton steward to Hylton Castle and father of John Stapylton Gray Pemberton of Hawthon Towers purchased the Low Barnes Estate in 1783, and made that the seat of his branch of the family. He made a further addition to his estate in 1803 when he purchased the manor and estate of Cold Hesledon, Co Durham for £12,000 from William Gibson of Newcastle. The pub at Cold Hesledon became firstly the Cold Hesledon Inn and then the Pemberton Arms. The one-pub village expanded considerably in the 1880s to deal with the overflow of population from the expanding Murton Colliery. The (mining) village of Cold Hesledon is now long gone, replaced by an industrial estate.