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De Rougemont Hotel today.
- Credit: De Rougemont Hotel
The De Rougemont Manor Hotel in Great Warley is set to be turned into homes.
Since 1968, the site - formerly known as the New World Inn - has operated as a nightclub, then hotel and restaurant and wedding venue after being bought by Ian Hilton (no relation to the Hilton hotel chain).
The hotel in the 1970s.
- Credit: De Rougemont Hotel
But for the first 93 years of its life, it served as a home for the Brentwood gentry - the well-heeled Heseltine family and their 40 staff. So well-heeled in fact that the adjacent St Mary the Virgin church was built by the family in 1902 at a cost in today’s money of over £8m.