{{Short description|House in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Historic building |name= The Dunkenhalgh |image= Mercure Dunkenhalgh Hotel and Spa. Blackburn Road. Clayton Le Moors. Lancashire. BB5 5JP - geograph.org.uk - 1601291.jpg |caption= The Dunkenhalgh in 2005 |pushpin_map= |coordinates = {{coord|53.76659|-2.39568|display=inline}} |location_town= Clayton-le-Moors |location_country= England |architect= |client= |construction_start_date= |completion_date= |cost= |structural_system= |architectural_style= |size= }} The '''Dunkenhalgh''' is a country manor in Lancashire, on the outskirts of Clayton-le-Moors near the river Hyndburn. Originally a large country house in Tudor style, it was later converted into a hotel. It is grade II listed.<ref name="Listing">{{NHLE|desc=Dunkelhalgh Hotel|num=1362003|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="Platt2013">{{cite book|author=Colin Platt|title=The Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England: Revolutions In Architectural Taste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dKNAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA229|date=18 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-21898-1|page=229}}</ref>
== History == The name ''Dunkenhalgh'' comes from Roger de Dunkenhalgh who built the house by the end of the 12th century. In 1332 it came into the hands of the Rishton family who sold it to the Walmsley family in 1571.<ref name="Colloque1996">{{cite book|author=Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval. Colloque|title=Festive Drama: Papers from the Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, 13-19 July, 1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2hCFJDumFIC&pg=PA38|year=1996|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-0-85991-496-3|pages=35, 38}}</ref> In 1712 it passed to the Petres. In 1947 the house was sold and converted into a hotel. The hall is currently owned by the Mercure Hotel chain.
== Description of the house == The current building is described in its listing as substantially nineteenth-century but incorporating parts of c. 1600 construction.<ref name="Listing" />
It is built in sandstone that is partly rendered, it has roofs of slate with some stone-slate. There are two storeys, and the building has a complex T-shaped plan. The entrance front is embattled with five asymmetrical bays. There is a single-storey porch, and the outer bays form towers, the east tower having crow-stepped parapets. On top of the building is a glazed circular lantern. There are several family portraits in the Portrait Room. Since 1950 the house has undergone many changes and extensions.{{sfnp|Hartwell|Pevsner|2009|pp=233–234|ps=}}{{sfnp|Historic England|1362003|ps=}}
==See also== *Listed buildings in Clayton-le-Moors
==References== {{Reflist|20em}} '''Sources''' {{Refbegin}} *{{Citation | last =Hartwell| first =Clare| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England| title =Lancashire: North | publisher =Yale University Press | year =2009 | orig-year=1969 | location = New Haven and London| isbn = 978-0-300-12667-9}} *{{Citation |author=Historic England|title=Listed Buildings |url=http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/listed-buildings/ |access-date= 16 March 2015 }} {{Refend}}
{{Borough of Hyndburn buildings}}
Category:Buildings and structures in Hyndburn Category:Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire