OWL HALL and ACCRINGTON HOUSE - Page 4

WillowTheWhisp · 19-10-2004, 11:59

I haven't a clue.

Maybe you could ask whoever has bought it - haven't seen any signs outside but earlier in this thread Darby said he'd heard it was to become a muslim learning centre.

kestrelx · 19-10-2004, 12:10

You could make some cash Marble Fireplaces sell for £100 to thousands,loads of old houses had them and people made money for nothing going round derelict council properties and whipping out the Fireplaces - so maybe there are some in there?

WillowTheWhisp · 19-10-2004, 12:45

I think the place has been used, abused, vandalised and set fire to since it was last occupied as a nursing home but maybe there are some original features remaining. I can't remember now when we worked out the date it was built but I think it was early 1900s

Darby · 19-10-2004, 13:44

When I think back, didn't it use to be the vicarage for St. Peters Church?

WillowTheWhisp · 19-10-2004, 13:48

The old vicarage is sort of next door but round the corner in Perth Street, but we did wonder why it wasn't built until some years after the church.

Atarah · 25-10-2004, 15:12

Hard to believe this fine building was once in Accrington, eh?
So, anyone in the area of Oswald Street, Bold Street, Mansion Street etc., ... THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE BUILT ON!!!!
The house, built in 1800, was one of the largest houses in the area. It was demolished in 1889 (shame!) to make way for houses for the growing population - many factories of course springing up in the area.

Accrington House stood diagonally across the top of Oswald Street and Clarendon Street

I wonder if anyone in this area has any ghosties?

WillowTheWhisp · 28-10-2004, 11:32

It never ceases to amaze me how much history we've lost. Why on earth couldn't some of these fine old buildings have been preserved?

The "demolish it all" mentality seems to continue to this day.

JohnW · 28-10-2004, 12:08

It also boggles the mind to think how much money there used to be in the town. Can you imagine how rich you had to be to build houses like this? Of course, I think a lot of the owners retired to places like Southport and took their money with them. Probably that is why Southport is such a, comparetively, affluent area.

WillowTheWhisp · 28-10-2004, 12:43

Or Lytham-St-Annes. That was another place they used to retire to wasn't it?

JohnW · 28-10-2004, 12:52

I'm sure you're right Willow. Blackpool probably featured quite heavily also.

kestrelx · 28-10-2004, 15:40

Yeh it is hard to believe that there were so many big houses in that area - am I right in saying that there were 3;Accrington House,Plantation House and Ardenhall House!

Acrylic-bob · 31-10-2004, 09:48

Atarah and I had an expedition to find the remains of Plantation House yesterday. The site is now heavily wooded and so it is a bit difficult to make out just how much is left. There is the remains of a drive leading to two fallen gate posts and an overgrown mound of building rubble together wiith what appears to be a rear yard with an embankment wall and the remains of some outbuildings.

There really isn't much else to be seen. As you can see from the pics, the area is really overgrown.

kestrelx · 02-11-2004, 18:08

Those pictures of the hollow bricks are familiar that is over by the lodges isn't it?The one that is now on it'self and totally over grown!
Plantation Mill I take it was some outhouse of that place?