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, 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.
To quote Black's guidebook from 1876...
"WATNALL CHAWORTH and WATNALL CANTELUPE together form a pleasant little village, occupying a somewhat elevated position one mile and a half beyond Nuthall. The venerable hall, which is well situated and completely surrounded by fine old timber, has been in the possession of the Rollestons since the time of Queen Elizabeth, and is now the seat of Lancelot Rolleston. Esq.. the present representative of the family."
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