High Brake Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
High Brake Hall
- WRENN ID
- patient-zinc-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ACCRINGTON (off)MARSHALL AVENUE HUNCOAT SD 73 SE 3/18 High Brake Hall - - II
House, c.1800, recently used as offices (now unoccupied) with house attached at rear. Ashlar facade, otherwise coursed rubble, hipped slate roof concealed by a parapet. Rectangular plan, 2 storeys, symmetrical in severe Georgian style. Facade of 5 bays has plinth, band at ground floor, sill band at 1st floor, moulded cornice and low parapet; door with semicircular fanlight and open-pedimented Doric surround, and windows sashed without glazing bars. Ground floor windows probably lengthened. Right return wall buttressed. Rear extension parallel, full length, 2 bays and 2 1/2 storeys, windows mostly coupled. History: built for Richard Fort (co-founder of Broad Oak Calico works in 1782) and used as boarding school in early C19, (attended, e.g., by various members of manufacturing family Hargreaves) (Ainsworth Homesteads; Baines Directory 1825; Crossley Captains)
Listing NGR: SD7746031085
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