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Brandlesholme Old Hall is a
Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
privately owned historic house in
Brandlesholme Brandlesholme is a suburb north of Bury in Greater Manchester, England, half-way between Bury town centre and Ramsbottom. Brandlesholme Road (B6214) is the main road through the area. At its furthermost south junction it meets with Tottington R ...
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, England.


History

The Hall was owned by the Greenhalgh family for eleven generations. John Greenhalgh (d.1651) was appointed Governor of the Isle of Man in 1640 by James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. His estates were seized by parliamentary authorities. On the death of Henry Greenhalgh in 1728 it passed to the Matthews family, who sold it in the 1770s to the merchant Richard Powell of Heaton Norris,
Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...
. The hall was sold at auction in 2018.


Architecture

The building was originally an open-hall cruck-framed house, originating in the 13th century, later remodelled in the 16th century and again in 1849. The south end was dismantled and rebuilt in 1852 and was repaired in 1908. It has 19th-century moulded
oriel window An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, bracket (architecture), brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window is most commonly found pro ...
s and the tall l½-storey range with steep slate roof contains the medieval hall. Externally, the house preserves little of its ancient appearance, but the interior exhibits a good deal of the timber construction. The hall preserves its wide open fireplace and has a wide, well-formed 16th or 17th-century upper cruck frame. The site also includes a
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
cruck barn from the 16th century and a Grade II listed barn dating from c.1830.


See also

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Listed buildings in Tottington, Greater Manchester Tottington, Greater Manchester, Tottington is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, and the area also includes the villages of Walshaw and Greenmount, Greater Manchester, Greenmount and the surrounding countrysi ...


References

{{Authority control Buildings and structures in Bury, Greater Manchester Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury Buildings and structures in Greater Manchester Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester