Built / Designed For: Lewes family

House & Family History: Stanford Hall is a brick house of the late 18th century. During the Second World War the Co-operative Union headquarters in Manchester was destroyed during air raids. The Cooperative College, as it later became, purchased Stanford Hall for £54,000 in 1945, approximately £6.4 million in inflation-adjusted values using the labour value commodity index. The college remained at Stanford until 2001, when it sold the House and relocated back to Manchester. During its occupation of Stanford, the college extended and altered the House, most notably in the 1930s. In 2001 the Georgian house and 360-acre parkland was purchased by Raynsway Properties Limited, who planned to convert the House into 34 residential apartments and construct a new 148-bedroom hotel using outbuildings on the Estate. In March 2007 the Stanford Estate was sold for £6.25 million to Mr. Chek Whyte of Chek Whyte Industries (CWI), who had previously restored Colwick Hall, Clifton Hall, and Bunny Hall. CWI built a new corporate headquarters on the Estate (Oak Court Offices) and planned to build a luxury hotel and a retirement village on the Estate; however, financial reverses resulted in CWI selling Stanford in 2011 to the 6th Duke of Westminster, who planned to convert the House and grounds to a rehabilitation center for the armed forces. In 2014 the UK government officially accepted Stanford on behalf of the nation; in 2015 the government a £300 million three-year project to create a national center to rehabilitate active and retired service members. In June of 2018 the new center was officially opened.

Vitruvius Britannicus: C. IVth. pls. 106, 107, 1739.

John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. I, p. 53, 1852.

John Preston (J.P.) Neale, published under the title of Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. III, 1820.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Grade II

Past Seat / Home of: Lewes family, 18th century. Charles Vere Dashwood, 18th century. Sir Julian Cahn, 20th century.

Current Ownership Type: Government

Primary Current Ownership Use: Training Center

Ownership Details: Since 2015 the National Rehabilitation Centre

House Open to Public: No

Phone: 02076-367-366

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.thednrc.org.uk/

Historic Houses Member: No