Harracles Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. A Georgian Country house.
Harracles Hall
- WRENN ID
- graven-spire-ivory
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Harracles Hall, Longsdon
- OS grid reference
- SJ 955 572
- Coordinates
- 53.11286, -2.06757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Harracles Hall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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