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Alston Hall is a 19th-century
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gothic style country mansion located in
Longridge Longridge is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is situated north-east of the city of Preston, at the western end of Longridge Fell, a long ridge above the River Ribble. The nearest vi ...
(near Preston) in
Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
,
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. It is not to be confused with the 15th-century Alston Old Hall nearby.


History

Alston Hall, designed by the architect
Alfred Darbyshire Alfred Darbyshire (20 June 183 – 5 July 1908) was a British architect. Education and career Alfred Darbyshire was born on 20 June 1839 in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford, Lancashire, to William Darbyshire, the manager of a dyeworks, and ...
, was built c.1876 for John Mercer, a Newton-le-Willows colliery owner. It passed down to his grand-daughter, who was a nun, and was then sold to the Eccles cotton manufacturing family who sold it in turn to William Birtwistle, another wealthy cotton industrialist. In 1949 the Birtwistles sold most of the land to the Church Commissioners and the hall itself, together with the remaining three acres of land, to Preston Borough Council as a Day Continuation College. In 1974 it was purchased by Lancashire County Council and converted to a residential training centre. Alston Hall is no longer owned and operated by Lancashire Adult Learning. It is now owned by a private individual as a family home. The hall is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, ...
as a designated Grade II
listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
.


See also

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Listed buildings in Longridge Longridge is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It contains 15 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Gr ...
* Lancashire College * The Adult College, Lancaster


References

Country houses in Lancashire Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire Grade II listed houses Education in Ribble Valley Buildings and structures in Ribble Valley Adult education in the United Kingdom Longridge {{Lancashire-struct-stub