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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26328663

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]