Sharples Hall
SHARPLES HALL, SHARPLES HALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388264
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sharples Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHARPLES HALL, SHARPLES HALL DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388264
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Sharples Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHARPLES HALL, SHARPLES HALL DRIVE
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:
- SHARPLES HALL, SHARPLES HALL DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71876 12779
Details
BOLTON
SD7112NE SHARPLES HALL DRIVE 797-1/5/205 (North side) 27/04/73 Sharples Hall (Formerly Listed as: ANDREW LANE Sharples Hall)
GV II
Small mansion, now divided into flats and extended. c1870 (with late C20 extensions). Rusticated coursed and squared stone with ashlar bands and slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 2 storeys with partial basement and attic. Square in plan. Former entrance front faces west, present entrance in extensions of c1980 to rear. 3-window range with advanced central pedimented bay, with projecting single storey porch, now disused, the doorway now a window. Round arched doorway and triple arcaded window alongside. Other windows all renewed in original openings with moulded architraves. First floor central window round arched, and round arched window in attic. Heavy modillion eaves cornice forms pediment across gable. Eastern elevation has principal 3-window range with central pedimented gable, and subsidiary single-window range to right, with shallow pedimented gablet. central canted bay window in principal section and tripartite windows above. Similar tripartite windows in right-hand bay. South elevation similar, with wide advanced gable to the right with projecting tripartite window in architrave with stressed entablature to ground floor, the upper window in architrave with pedimented head cutting the roof line. Canted bay window to left, with pedimented tripartite window above. Axial and end wall stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the hall was for a time the home of Sir John Holden, owner of the nearby Astley Bridge Mill, Blackburn Road (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7187612779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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