Broadclough Hall

SD 82 SE BACUP BURNLEY RDAD

7/16 Broadclough Hall - GV II

House, early C19, incorporating some earlier fabric. Freestone, low hipped slate roof with 2 receding ridges, various chimneys behind the main ridge. Square plan 5x5 bays, 2 storeys in classical style. Symmetrical: pedimented 3-bay centre breaks forward slightly and has a wide porch of Tuscan columns with triglyphed frieze and prominent cornice, covering a wide segmental doorway with margin lights and slim Tuscan pilasters; otherwise, very regular 5-window facade, all windows sashed without glazing bars, the upper leaf of the sash smaller than the lower. Return walls similar, but some windows are blind, and left return wall has a false porch, rectangular with panelled sides, which encloses within a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with a moulded cornice and raised lettering on the lintel: "IAW : 1666". Rear wall has a 2-stage stairlight over a doorway, and abutting the right hand half a 2-storey workshop with 6-light flush mullion window on each floor (possibly C18, preceding the house). Interior: very large double-pile entrance hall with fluted columns distyle in antis, giving onto open well staircase with cantilevered stone stairs, looped iron balusters and mahogany handrail, illuminated by a domed skylight; moulded plaster friezes and modillioned cornices, mahogany doors and fireplace surrounds. History: home of James Whittaker, proprietor of Meadows Mill c. 1830-50.

Listing NGR: SD8661523941