Parr Hall

ECCLESTON PARR LANE SD 51 NW 9/97 Parr Hall - GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1721 at 1st floor, remodelled 1934. Handmade brick, slate roof with chimney at right gable. Double-depth 2-bay plan, with added rear wing. Formerly 3 storeys, reduced to two storeys and attic; almost symmetrical; chamfered stone plinth, dressed sandstone bands at 1st floor and eaves (formerly 2nd floor) level, small raised quoins; offset left of centre, door with shouldered panels and semi-circular canopy on carved wooden consoles (both these copying originals); at 1st floor above the door a datestone in moulded surround lettered in relief P all surrounded E I TP 1721 by slender foliated patterns; to left, each floor has one large transomed 3-light window with gauged segmental brick head and altered glazing, to right, 2 vertical rectangular windows on each floor with similar heads, the 1st at ground floor altered as a door and the others with altered glazing. Left gable has modern windows on each floor and attic; rear has large 2½-storey wing added in C19 to service horse-drawn buses, a modern flight of stone steps up the side of this to a 1st floor entrance. Interior: tongue-stopped chamfered beams; 3-storey dog-legged staircase with closed modelled string, shouldered-panel rectangular newels, turned balusters, and broad moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: SD5191517334