Hayes: Barra Hall
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Hayes: Barra Hall
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 11 Jan 2015
Barra Hall is a Grade II Listed building described on the English Heritage website thus:- "Mid-late C19 building in a sort of Jacobean style with Scottish baronial touches. 2 storeys, irregular. North (entrance) front of 4 bays, the left a chimney bay. Stucco with tiled roofs. Varied skyline of plain and shaped gables with ball finials. Mullioned and transomed casements, some in projecting square or canted bays. Continuous hoodmoulds over 1st floor windows. Projecting porch with battlemented parapet. Similar long south-west front of L-shape, with round projecting turrets at outer angles." This is the view of the south-east facing side which the photographer thinks that English Heritage mean by the "south-west front". On the earliest available online Ordnance Survey map, surveyed around 1865, the building is shown as Grove Lodge, but in 1923 it was purchased by the then Hayes Urban District Council as their Town Hall, continuing in this function until the 1960s.
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Image Location
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51.51851
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-0.424964