Watnall Hall used to be Watnall's "stately home", built in Elizabethan times and remodelled in Queen Anne style in the early 1700's by the Rolleston family. The Rolleston's owned the hall until 1954 after the death of Lady Maud Rolleston, widow of Sir Lancelot, and the hall and contents were auctioned off. In 1962 the hall and almost all of the outbuildings including the magnificent medieval tithe barn were demolished. The only remnant is the gate house and part of the outer garden wall which still stand by Watnall's main road, the B600.
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