High Brake Hall

High Brake Hall is a house built around 1800, which has recently been used as offices and is now unoccupied. It features an ashlar facade with coursed rubble elsewhere and a hipped slate roof that is concealed by a parapet. The building has a rectangular plan, is two storeys tall, and exhibits a symmetrical design in a severe Georgian style. The facade consists of five bays and includes a plinth, a band at the ground floor, a sill band at the first floor, a moulded cornice, and a low parapet. The entrance has a door with a semicircular fanlight and an open-pedimented Doric surround, while the windows are sashed without glazing bars, with the ground floor windows likely having been lengthened. The right return wall is buttressed. There is a rear extension that runs parallel to the main building, is full length, has two bays, and is two and a half storeys tall, with most windows being coupled. Historically, the house was built for Richard Fort, a co-founder of the Broad Oak Calico works in 1782, and it served as a boarding school in the early 19th century, attended by various members of the Hargreaves manufacturing family.