Hackensall Hall

Hackensall Hall, also known as Hackensall Hall Farmhouse, is an historic building on Whinny Lane in Preesall, Lancashire, England. It is Grade II listed, built in 1873.[1]

Hackensall Hall
The building in 2011, looking south
LocationWhinny Lane, Preesall,
Lancashire,
England
Coordinates53.92057°N 2.99317°W / 53.92057; -2.99317
AreaBorough of Wyre
Built1873 (1873)
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated3 October 1984
Reference no.1361845
Location of Hackensall Hall in the Borough of Wyre
Hackensall Hall (Lancashire)

A remodelling of a 17th-century house, it retains much of its earlier fabric. It is in pebbledashed brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and has two storeys with attics. The house has an irregular plan with rear wings and outshuts. Most of the windows are mullioned and transomed, or mullioned. Other features include a single-storey gabled porch, a doorway with a moulded surround and a Tudor arched head, and a re-set inscribed plaque. Inside the house is an inglenook.[2][1]

Richard Fleetwood built Hackensall Hall in 1656 after their home at Rossall Hall was flooded. Nearby Parrox Hall was built about the same time, and has been in the possession of the Elletson family since 1690.[3]

Dorothy Parkinson

In 1872, Dorothy Parkinson, the 17-year-old daughter of John Parkinson, then landlord of the Black Bull Inn in Preesall, processed a sample of rock salt found by a "syndicate of men" from Barrow-in-Furness who stayed at the inn during their search for iron ore in the area. She dissolved, filtered and boiled the sample, thus creating the very first example of Preesall salt.[4] In 1902, Preesall Salt Works was built to the north of the village's salt marshes, on the east bank of the River Wyre.[5]

Dorothy married another John Parkinson and spent her life as a farmer's wife at Hackensall Hall Farm, where she raised nine children. She died in 1925.[6]

Architectural detail
  • A closer view of the northern elevation of the main house

Farm buildings
  • Derelict remnants of the farm structures immediately to the northwest of the main building

See also

References
  1. Historic England & 1361845
  2. Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 360
  3. A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre – Nick Moore (2018), p. 63
  4. "Early days of the Preesall salt mines: An underground industry which changed the face of Lancashire" – Blackpool Gazette, 29 November 2018
  5. A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre – Nick Moore (2018), p. 112
  6. "Dangers beneath Lancashire's fields" – Lancashire Evening Post, 11 December 2018

Sources
  • Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  • Historic England, "Hackensall Hall and Hackensall Hall Farmhouse, Preesall (1361845)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 December 2015
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