Description

ACCRINGTON SANDY LANE
SD 72 NE
5/34 New High Riley Farmhouse and
attached shippon and barn.
22.8.1966 (formerly listed as New High
Riley (with tower and barn

- II

Farmstead with attached tower, 1834. Sandstone, house of watershot
coursing, remainder of rubble, roof of slates and some stone slates.
Roughly U-shaped plan. The only feature of interest is the west (rear)
facade which is roughly symmetrical with high embattled 2-stage tower
dominating the barn in the centre, which has a tall 2-centred arch with
a smaller pointed arched opening above. Each gabled wing has in the
apex a very large quatrefoil panel enclosing a small square window,
3 windows at ground floor and one at 1st floor, all in pointed arches.
History: Built by the manufacturing Hargreaves family in 1834, probably
as eye-catcher in view from Oak Hill (see Ainsworth Homesteads pp.24-27
and Mannex Directory Mid Lancs 1854 p.394).

Listing NGR: SD7777528395

Selected Sources

• Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 24-7
• Mannex, , Directory of Mid Lancashire, (1854), 394

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