Hurst Hall

Hurst Hall is an interesting one. What is marked as Hurst Hall on modern maps and even in the listed buildings register is not the building that is clearly marked as the hall on earlier maps. What is now known as Hall Farm (also listed) is Hurst Hall and the building next to it at the very top of Hurst is the appropriately named Hurst Head House.

There has probably been some rebuilding and alteration over the decades. Lintels inscribed with F M 1871 and F M 1879 refer to Francis Morley who was Lord of the Manor, owned the Hurst mines and either leased them out or worked them himself. The buildings are much earlier than these dates however, and they were presumably added when some renovations or additions were made.

I think Hurst House is the same as Hurst Hall. It's in the right place in the sequence of dwellings in the 1871 census which is the only document where the house is so named. Also in the 1871 census, there is no mention of Hurst Hall.

Hurst Hall residents

Here is a list of relations who have lived or stayed at Hurst Hall at some time or other.