Rode Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire, ST7 3QP  (Show me directions) Show Map

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Welcome to Rode Hall
Snowdrop Walks 2 Feb - 3 Mar
Tues - Sun 11-4pm

Experience one of the UK's most popular walks here at Rode Hall & Gardens. A beautiful end of winter walk for all the family with a wonderfully diverse landscape and over 70 varieties of Snowdrops.

Admission £5/Children £2/Under 5's Free
For group bookings please call 01270 873237
Dogs on leads welcome

HHA/RHS cards not valid during this period
Local Art Exhibition in the barns 5 Feb - 1 Mar
Candlelight & Snowdrops at Odd Rode Church

The courtyard kitchen, complete with flaming woodburner, will be open serving homemade lunches, delicious cakes and refreshments.

Summer Season 2 Apr - 26 Sep

Gardens & Tearoom
Wednesdays and Bank Holiday Mondays 11 am - 5pm (Tearooms til 4pm)
They are also open alongside the Farmers' Market on the first Saturday of each month. The tea rooms offer a selection of homemade cakes, lunches & refreshments using produce from our kitchen garden here at Rode.

House Only
Wednesdays and Bank Holiday Mondays 12 - 4pm
Guided tours are run throughout the afternoon. Please buy tickets in tea room and consult notice board outside the house for exact tour times.
Entrance
House & Gardens: Adults £8, Concessions £7, Children 5-15 £2, Under 5's free

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Rode Hall is home to an important collection of English porcelain and pottery amassed by successive generations of the Wilbraham family since the mid-eighteenth century. This collection began when Mary Bootle married into the Wilbraham family. An heiress to two fortunes, her love of fine china was a legacy which has continued through to the present day. Since 1980, the collection has been significantly enhanced by the current custodian of Rode, Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham, 8th Bart. His acquisitions especially reflect Mrs. Bootle's early patronage of porcelain, both Chinese and English, and the family's subsequent interest in Victorian Arts and Crafts pottery, particularly the designs of Walter Crane who, as a young man, often visited Rode.

The first west-facing, house was built between 1705 and 1707 by Roger Wilbraham's son, Randle Wilbraham I (1663 - 1732). It was a conventional, slate-roofed building with slightly extending wings and simple, lead-paned cross windows. Sometime before the 1750s, the house received grander Venetian and oeuil-de-boeuf windows to the wings and a new semi-circular headed central doorway. The cupola between the hall's tall chimneys was put in during the early 1800s and is echoed by that added to the adjacent stable block.

It was Randle Wilbraham III, Richard's son, who implemented some of Repton's proposals, employing in 1803 John Webb (1754 1828), a partner of William Eames. Webb constructed a new entrance drive way, laid out the five-acre Wild Garden in the dell to the west of the house, and created two artificial lakes: the 'less water' or 'Stew Pond' and the one-mile long 'large water' known as 'Rode Pool'. There is a tradition that when the family were at home a canvas of a waterfall was placed to create the illusion from the house that there was a cascade between the two lakes.

SUMMER SEASON
Gardens
3 Apr - 25 Sep
Wednesdays & Bank Holiday Mondays
Opening times: 11 am - 5pm

House Only
3 April - 25 Sep
Wednesdays & Bank Holiday Mondays
Opening times - 12 noon - 4.00pm

Call or visit our website for more information.

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