Crewe Hall Hotel, Crewe

This is a hotel, which means that the bar is only open to residents.

Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion, set in 8 acres of parkland. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire, it is listed as grade I. Built in 1615–36 for Sir Randolph Crewe. West service wing added circa 1800, for the first Baron Crewe. 1830-1840 restoration by Blore for the third Baron. Gutted by fire in 1866 and rebuilt by E M Barry 1870. Further alteration by Thomas Bower in 1896. The hall remained the seat of various branches of the Crewe family until 1936, when the land was sold to the Duchy of Lancaster. Early in the Second World War it was used as a military training camp, a US army camp and the place where the British Expeditionary Force found respite after their evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk. Later in the war Crewe Hall was used to house German Officers. It was used as offices after the Second World War, serving as the headquarters for the Wellcome Foundation for nearly thirty years. Now part of the Q Hotels Group. Recent modern annexe added. No real ales, but well worth a visit for the architecture alone, and, I am told, the afternoon tea!!