High Brake Hall
HIGH BRAKE HALL, MARSHALL AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072754
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- High Brake Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BRAKE HALL, MARSHALL AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072754
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- High Brake Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH BRAKE HALL, MARSHALL AVENUE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BRAKE HALL, MARSHALL AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 77460 31085
Details
ACCRINGTON (off)MARSHALL AVENUE HUNCOAT SD 73 SE 3/18 High Brake Hall - - II
House, c.1800, recently used as offices (now unoccupied) with house attached at rear. Ashlar facade, otherwise coursed rubble, hipped slate roof concealed by a parapet. Rectangular plan, 2 storeys, symmetrical in severe Georgian style. Facade of 5 bays has plinth, band at ground floor, sill band at 1st floor, moulded cornice and low parapet; door with semicircular fanlight and open-pedimented Doric surround, and windows sashed without glazing bars. Ground floor windows probably lengthened. Right return wall buttressed. Rear extension parallel, full length, 2 bays and 2 1/2 storeys, windows mostly coupled. History: built for Richard Fort (co-founder of Broad Oak Calico works in 1782) and used as boarding school in early C19, (attended, e.g., by various members of manufacturing family Hargreaves) (Ainsworth Homesteads; Baines Directory 1825; Crossley Captains)
Listing NGR: SD7746031085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928)
Crossley, R S, Accrington Captains of Industry, (1930)
Baines Directory in Baines Directory, (1825)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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