Littledale Hall
Littledale Hall is located in the City of Lancaster district
Littledale Hall
Location within the City of Lancaster district
General information
TypeCountry house
Architectural styleGothic
LocationCaton-with-Littledale, Lancashire
CountryEngland
Coordinates54°03′08″N 2°39′48″W / 54.05235°N 2.66322°W / 54.05235; -2.66322
Completed1849
Technical details
MaterialSandstone with slate roofs
Design and construction
Architect(s)attributed to E. G. Paley
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated7 March 1985
Reference no.1163923

Littledale Hall is a former country house in the civil parish of Caton-with-Littledale in Lancashire, England, some 10 miles (16 km) east of Lancaster. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]

It dates from 1849 and, in the absence of documentary evidence, its design has been attributed on stylistic grounds to the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley.[2] It is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs, and is in Gothic style.[1]

History

Littledale Free Church, built 1849 by Revd John Dodson

Littledale Hall was built in 1849 for Revd John Dodson, of a Liverpool shipping family.[2][3] He had been vicar of Cockerham from 1835 to 1849, but seceded from the Established Church because of the Gorham judgement and retired with his family to Littledale. There he also built a Free Church in which he preached for thirty years, dying in Eastbourne in 1890. His eldest son John died at Littledale in 1851 at the age of 18.

The house became a Christian retreat in 1988 and a residential addiction treatment centre in 2006. [4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Historic England, "Littledale Hall (1163923)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 August 2013
  2. ^ a b Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. xviii, 227
  3. ^ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 429–430, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  4. ^ "The Lune Floodplain and the Top of Bowland" (PDF). Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Littledale Hall Therapeutic Community". NHS. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Review of Compliance" (PDF). Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
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