Rutland Hall Hotel, Barnsdale Hall, built in 1890 for the Fitzwilliam family

Barnsdale Hall, built in 1890 for the Fitzwilliam family. The architect was E J May, who had been involved in designing Bedford Park, England’s first garden suburb, in 1875. He adopted a neo-Tudor design ‘with a canted two-storey bay and tiled roofs’

It was a hunting lodge and converted into a hotel and conference centre. the Barnsdale Country Club, with luxurious health club and Scandinavian-style ‘time-share’ timber lodges, sited in landscaped parkland on the side of Barnsdale Hill. Despite opposition led by Rutland Council for the Protection of Rural England. When Rutland Water was created.

Barnsdale Hall Hotel in Rutland was bought in 2020 by Dineshbhai and Savitaben Patel – co-founders of the Leicester-based Asian snack foods empire. Cofresh food. https://cofresh.co.uk/ They renamed it  Rutland Hall Hotel https://rutlandhall.co.uk/