Harracles Hall

Harracles Hall is a small country house built in the early 18th century, with some alterations and additions made in the 20th century. The house is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a hipped red tile roof, along with panelled corniced brick ridge stacks.

The building has an L-shaped plan, with the original entrance front facing west. This two-storey front has a layout of 2:3:2 and includes cross casements with bolection surrounds. Some windows on the first and ground floors have been blocked. The design features a moulded plinth and eaves band, with a raised string at the first floor level that stops short of the rusticated quoins at the corners. The three-bay centre break is topped with a pediment that has a low-relief festooned cartouche in the tympanum, and there is a 20th-century stack to the right of the pediment. The central entrance has a moulded surround with an enlarged keystone and corbel, and a broken segmental pediment that is now blocked by a casement window.

The former five-bay south elevation has had some windows blocked, reducing the number of windows to three on each floor. It features rusticated quoins and a string at the first floor level.

Inside, there is an oak staircase located in the panelled stair hall on the south side. The staircase has a dog-leg layout, with turned balusters, an open scroll-finished string, and a handrail that ramps at angles.

Harracles Hall was built for Josiah Wedgewood shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Shaw of Blackwood in Horton.