Hare Hill Park Band Stand

The Hare Hill Park Band Stand is a bandstand built in 1902, presented to the Littleborough Urban District Council by James Cryer. It has an octagonal plan and features five stone steps on the north-west side leading to a raised platform, which sits on a coursed gritstone base with a chamfered plinth. On the south side of the plinth, there is a stone plaque inscribed with: 'PRESENTED TO LITTLEBOROUGH / URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL / ON THE CORONATION DAY OF / KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH / BY JAMES CRYER ESQ / OF LITTLEBOROUGH. JUNE 26TH 1902'.

The platform is enclosed by four square cast-iron panels that display a pattern of circles and radiating bars, supported by slender columns that hold up a shallow pitched roof. The roof has deep eaves with ornate wooden edging, 20th-century roof felting, a raised vent at the apex, and an elaborate scrolled finial topped with a gold crown. Some ceiling boarding and part of the roofing have been removed, revealing the roof structure with tie beams extending from a central iron rod and bolting plate. The gates are currently missing.

This bandstand is one of the structures built in the new public park after the Newall family leased Hare Hills House to the newly-formed Littleborough Urban District Council in 1900.