The history of Rossett Hall Hotel

The original house was built in 1750 by James Boydell, later to become the Lord Mayor of London, but the then sheriff to the local Harwarden estate, better known under the family name of Gladstone.

The original house is a fine example of the period's Georgian architecture. A grade two listed building the house boasts a fine cantilever staircase built of sandstone which was designed by a Flemish architect captured during the Napoleonic war.

A small footnote of local fable is that Lord Nelson courted Emma Hamilton at Rossett Hall when visiting Harwarden, but perhaps not unsurprisingly, this is not documented anywhere.

The property has been sympathetically extended around the Georgian Hall in 1990 and again in 2007, combining the classical with the contemporary, to become one of the leading hotels in the area.