Huntroyde Hall

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Huntroyde Hall Gatehouse (now detached from house and grounds)

Huntroyde Hall or Huntroyde Demesne (known locally simply as 'Huntroyde') is a grade II listed 16th-century house and estate bordering the north west edge of the town of Padiham, Lancashire, England, near Simonstone.

The house was originally constructed to an H-shaped plan in 1576 for the Starkie family[1] but re-built in the Georgian style in the mid-19th century. Additional wings were added to the west side in 1777 and 1850 which have since been demolished. The house was faced in stone in 1885.[2]

History

Huntroyd Hall was built for Edmund Starkie in 1576. His grandson John (1584–1665) inherited the estate in 1618 and went on to become one of the Chief Justices of the Peace in Lancashire and Sheriff of Lancaster. His eldest son Nicholas, a captain in the Parliamentary army, inherited but was killed in 1643 by the gunpowder explosion at the siege of Hoghton Tower. Nicholas' son John was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1656 and died in 1676. The estate passed to John's son John and then to John jnr's son Piers. Piers died childless in 1760 and left the estate to his cousin's son Le Gendre Starkie (c.1735–1792), after which is passed to Le Gendre's son, Le Gendre Piers Starkie (1760–1807), who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1806. [3]

The estate was then inherited by the latter's son Le Gendre Starkie (1790–1822), High Sheriff in 1815 and after his early death by his younger brother Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie (1799–1865), Member of Parliament for Pontefract from 1826 to 1832 and a prominent Freemason, being Provincial Grand Master for the Western Division of Lancashire. His son, Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie (1828–1899), was High Sheriff in 1868 and MP for Clitheroe from 1853 to 1856. Also a prominent Freemason, he was Provincial Grand Master for the Eastern Division of Lancashire from 1870 to 1899.[4] He left the estate to his son Edmund Arthur Le Gendre Starkie (1871–1958). [3]

Edmund served as Captain in the Boer War and was a local promoter of the Red Cross and St John's Ambulance Brigade and by 1914 had developed parts of the Huntroyde grounds into a major tree plantation.[5] He allowed Huntroyd to be used as a hospital for convalescent soldiers during the First World War. [3] After Edmund's death in 1958, the estate passed to his nephew, Guy Le Gendre Starkie (1909-1985). The house was partially demolished in 1969 and 1970 to reduce it to a more manageable size and eventually sold in 1983. In 2011 the house was again offered for sale by auction. [2]

The estate is not open to the public but corporate events such as simulated game shooting and clay pigeon shooting are held in the grounds. However, the estate is fragmented by public footpaths, roads and farms. The gatehouse or lodge to the Hall, and known as Arbory Hall, is in Arbory Drive, Padiham near the cricket field.[6] It was built in 1790 and is now a private residence.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ About the Starkies of Huntroyd by and ancestor of tenant farmers
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Huntroyde Hall West - Particulars of Sale". Retrieved 2013-01-06. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Starkie Family of Huntroyde in Lancashire, England". Retrieved 2013-01-06. 
  4. ↑ The History of the Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire
  5. ↑ Parks and Gardens UK - based on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest
  6. ↑ Lancashire Telegraph 20 November 2008 on the gatehouse
  7. ↑ Nadin, Jack; Armstrong, Duncan (2009). "Padiham in Old Photographs" - contains additional history. Stroud, Gloucs, GL5 2QG: The History Press. pp. 10–16. ISBN 978-0-7524-5188-6. 

Coordinates: 53°48′44″N 2°19′35″W / 53.8121°N 2.3263°W / 53.8121; -2.3263

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