Hoole Hall

Hoole Hall is a former country house located to the north of Chester, Cheshire, England.

[4] During the 20th century it was used by Western Command Army Division to house the Pay Corps and later abandoned and became derelict, but was then converted into a hotel.

[1] Figueirdo and Treuherz describe it as "a miniature astylar Palladian villa of brick with stucco dressings".

He left Hoole Hall to his eldest son Thomas Baldwin, a balloonist who wrote a 1785 book about his experiences.

[8] He remained at Hoole for the next twelve years and during this time he and his wife Jane had seven more children two more boys and five girls.

After the death of Thomas Long Oliver, the owner, in 1855 the property was sold to Arthur Potts.

[15] He retired in about 1853 with a large fortune and several years later bought Hoole Hall where he amused himself in the horticultural pursuits of growing orchids and collecting alpine plants.

Arthur died in 1888 and his wife Elizabeth (née Wardell) continued to live at Hoole Hall.

She died in 1911 and her daughter Edith, who had married the Reverend Oswald Pryor Wardell-Yerburgh in 1889,[18] inherited the property.

Her husband died in 1913 and Edith lived at Hoole Hall with her daughter Hilda until 1924 when she sold it to Sir Alexander Maguire.

He was the Secretary of Garden City Tenants Ltd[20] which was a building society founded to raise capital for workers' housing.