Description

BOLTON

SD7112NE SHARPLES HALL DRIVE
797-1/5/205 (North side)
27/04/73 Sharples Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
ANDREW LANE
Sharples Hall)

GV II

Small mansion, now divided into flats and extended. c1870
(with late C20 extensions). Rusticated coursed and squared
stone with ashlar bands and slate roof.
EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 2 storeys with partial basement and attic.
Square in plan. Former entrance front faces west, present
entrance in extensions of c1980 to rear. 3-window range with
advanced central pedimented bay, with projecting single storey
porch, now disused, the doorway now a window. Round arched
doorway and triple arcaded window alongside. Other windows all
renewed in original openings with moulded architraves. First
floor central window round arched, and round arched window in
attic. Heavy modillion eaves cornice forms pediment across
gable.
Eastern elevation has principal 3-window range with central
pedimented gable, and subsidiary single-window range to right,
with shallow pedimented gablet. central canted bay window in
principal section and tripartite windows above. Similar
tripartite windows in right-hand bay.
South elevation similar, with wide advanced gable to the right
with projecting tripartite window in architrave with stressed
entablature to ground floor, the upper window in architrave
with pedimented head cutting the roof line. Canted bay window
to left, with pedimented tripartite window above. Axial and
end wall stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the hall was for a time the home of Sir John Holden,
owner of the nearby Astley Bridge Mill, Blackburn Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7187612779

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667823

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)