Rockliffe Hall to open in County Durham

Rockliffe Hall is set on an 18^th-century hunting and shooting estate on the banks of the River Tees on the border with North Yorkshire.

The estate's 19^th-century Victorian Gothic hall has been turned into a 61-room hotel with event space.

It will offer eight meeting rooms and a banqueting suite with a private entrance and capacity for 250 guests.

The property claims to be the only hotel in England to have a ‘sleep retreat' and chromatherapy bedrooms with lights that move through a spectrum of colours to aid relaxation.

Rockliffe Hall has a 4,645sqm spa that will offer 12 treatment rooms, a VIP treatment suite, sound-wave relaxation room, hydrotherapy pool, eight thermal suites, and a 20-metre indoor pool illuminated by stained glass windows.

There is also an 18-hole championship golf-course, claimed to be Europe's longest.