Stubbylee Hall

SD 82 SE BACUP STUBBYLEE LANE

7/59 Stubbylee Hall 19.6.1968 (formerly listed as Bacup Town Hall) - II

Large house, originally 1809 (datestone over rear stairlight), rebuilt or remodelled and enlarged 1872 (dated on left return wall) now Council Offices. Sandstone ashlar, hipped slate roof with ridge chimneys. Roughly L-shaped plan, 5x3 bays with rear wing to left. Two storeys, in classical style: symmetrical 5-bay facade composed of 3-bay centre flanked by slightly projecting segmentally curved wings, all these with panelled pilasters at the corners, plain frieze and moulded cornice with low parapet (carried round sides without parapet). Pedimented centre bay breaking forwards slightly has porch with coupled pilasters at the corners, engaged Ionic columns in antis, prominent cornice and balustraded parapet, and above this at 1st floor a tall window with cornice on consoles. There are 2 windows on each floor of the curved wing bays and one on each floor of the inner bays, all sashed with glazing bars, and above those at 1st floor are narrow horizontal panels. Return walls have 3 similar windows on each floor, but those at 1st floor front are blind; and left return wall is linked to the rear wing by a short recessed bay with a round-headed doorway, pierced pseudo-parapet, 1st floor window with architrave, and parapet lettered AD 1872. Rear has, inter alia, a tripartite stairlight with round-headed lights, above the centre of which is a datestone with scallop decoration in the corners and inscribed lettering H (James Holt?). I & A 1809 Interior: large stairwell with stone imperial staircase (of one flight and then two) protected by heavy classical wooden balustrade panelled,ceiling with moulded plaster decoration to the beams, and spherical domed skylight with stained glass margins; other fittings and furnishings survive, e.g. built-in cupboards and bookcases, but some have been relocated. History: "Stubby lee" occupied in 1825 by James Holt, baize manufacturer; and in later C19 by James Maden Holt MP.

Listing NGR: SD8668121828