Rode Hall

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Le château en bref

Rode Hall is a red brick country house near Scholar Green, in the civil parish of Odd Rode, in south-east Cheshire. Home of the Wilbraham family since the early 18th century, it is in fact two houses joined together: a first house of about 1700, which became the service wing, and a main block added in 1752. Successive generations called on several architects: the Hiorne brothers for the Georgian extension, John Hope in the late 18th century, Lewis Wyatt for the dining room in 1808, and Darcy Braddell, who restored the brick to its original appearance in 1926–1927. The interior retains a staircase decorated with Rococo plasterwork, a dining room with scagliola columns and a mahogany library, as well as an important collection of English porcelain and pottery. The house is surrounded by landscaped parkland inspired by Humphry Repton's Red Book and carried out by John Webb, with its two lakes, wild garden, rose gardens and an Italian garden created in 2007. Still lived in by the family, it opens its doors in season and hosts markets and snowdrop walks.