Rookery Hall
Coordinates: 53°05′56″N 2°30′36″W / 53.099°N 2.510°W
Rookery Hall is an Elizabethan-style mansion located off the B5074 road near the village of Worleston in Cheshire, England. Dating originally from 1816 but extensively altered in the late 19th century, the hall is listed at grade II. As of 2008, Rookery Hall is a hotel, restaurant, Health Club and spa.
The hall dates from 1816, and was originally a plain late Georgian house in brick known as "The Rookery, Worleston". The first owner was William Hilton Cooke of Chester, who owned a Jamaican sugar plantation. The estate was purchased in 1867 by Baron William Henry von Schröder, a merchant banker and son of J. Henry Schröder, the founder of Schroders. It was extended and extensively altered into an Elizabethan style for von Schröder in around 1900. The estate was sold by von Schröder's son in 1947. Rookery Hall was also owned by Ralph Midwood who was a cotton broker and horse trainer from Liverpool, who added the stable block.
The hall became a hotel and restaurant in around 1975. A further 29 further bedrooms and a function room were added in 1990, and in 2007 the former stable block was converted into a health club and spa. Further expansion during 2007 included the building of a conference and banqueting centre and 39 executive bedrooms.
The hall is neo-Elizabethan in style. It is constructed on an asymmetrical plan consisting of two storeys and five bays, of yellow sandstone ashlar cladding with a slate roof.
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