HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN

HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN, KINGSWAY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362014
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN
Statutory Address:: HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN, KINGSWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362014
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN
Statutory Address 1:: HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN, KINGSWAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HUNCOAT HALL AND ATTACHED BARN, KINGSWAY

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 78018 30054

Details

ACCRINGTON KINGSWAY, SD 73 SE Huncoat 3/17 Huncoat Hall and attached barn 22.8.1966 (formerly listed as Huncoat Hall)

- II

Late medieval or early C16 hall house, altered in C18 and 1870-71; now house and barn. Coursed rubble with quoins, slate roof with 3 chimneys. H-plan, two storeys. South side: 2-storey central range possibly once an open hall, projecting gabled wings at each end (that on left now a barn) with a 2-storey cross-gabled bay in the left angle and a lean-to porch in the right angle; surviving features on this side include a long hoodmould at ground floor of left wing, windows of 3 and 4 round-headed lights with hollow spandrels at ground floor of bay with a blocked window above, a blocked mezzanine in the centre range, and a large Tudor-arched doorway to the porch (now part blocked and covered by outhouse). Right return wall includes 2-storey projection housing a former garderobe and part of a corbelled 1st floor chimney; rear (now front) has stair turret in angle with barn, and barn wall, rebuilt, incorporates at 1st floor a small window with 2 round-headed lights, and inscribed on sill CT 1873. Interior: (principal features only) upper end of hall-part has arched opening into ground floor of bay (oriel?), 2 pointed Tudor-arch doorways to wing (said to have been dining hall, now barn) and another to stair turret, which has part of spiral stone staircase; crosswing at lower end has 2 similar doorways (blocked); blocked mezzanine in south wall has splayed reveal and headstone for 3 rounded lights; 1st floor of bay has evidence of similar window, and is said to have been chapel (late medieval cross formerly on gable of this now loose). There are very extensive cellars of uncertain purpose under yard and field to north of house. History: home of recusant Birtwistle family from C15 to C18. (Ainsworth: Homesteads pp. 381-5; Altham and Huncoat; Whitaker: History of Whalley (1876 edn) vol.2 pp.284-5) Report for RCHM(E)

Listing NGR: SD7801830054

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 183814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The History and Associations of Accrington and Huncoat
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 381-5
Whitaker, T D, A History of the Original Parish of Whalley, (1876), 284-5

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.