The earliest recorded references to Newton on the Moor are in the thirteenth century ‘Testa de Nevill’, which was a listing of Feudal land holdings.  At this time it was part of the possessions of the lordship of Alnwick.  It was briefly held by Simon de Montfort after 1256 before reverting to the Crown.  In 1269 Henry III gave it to his son, Edmund, earl of Lancaster.

In 1663 the Rates book, rates being a way to raise money for the Crown, record a George Lisle and Colonel Forster as principal owners of land in the township.      

George Lisle, in his will dated 1677, bequeathed “my lands at Newton to my wife and then to my nephew Lancelot Strother.”  In 1722 Lancelot is recorded as being a free holder within the village.

Sometime in the early part of the eighteenth Century a house was built within the village of Newton on the Moor by the Strother family.  The house was a substantial well proportioned home with at least two storeys. 

The Strother house remained in the family until 1880 when it was purchased by Mr Shalcross Fitzherbert Widdrington, formerly Jackson / Jacson, from Mr William G Strother.  By this time the Widdrington family had both inherited and bought the majority of the land and properties in and around the village.   

During the later part of the nineteenth Century the fashion was for estate landowners to ‘improve’ their properties to create a model village effect.  It is believed that between 1880 and 1887 this occurred within Newton on the Moor with the Strother House being reduced to a single storey.  The Widdrington Family built the Jubilee Hall to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.  It is believed that stone from the Strother House was used in the construction of the Jubilee Hall.

In 1887 Shalcross Fitzherbert Widdrington donated the hall and the adjoining reading room, believed to be the remains of the Strother House, to the village to form what is now the village hall.

Historic England listed the building as Grade two in 1988.