Greaves Hall

Greaves Hall was built in 1900 by Thomas Talbot Leyland Scarisbrick and was surrounded by some 124 acres. Mr Scarisbrick, his wife and sons lived in the mansion until the end of the first World War. He then moved to Scarisbrick Hall and the mansion was sold to a consortium of local farmers headed by Mr Robert Ball a local neighbour. The mansion stood empty for a while and it is understood that Mr Ball purchased the estate and cultivated the land himself. Mr Ball tried without success to sell the estate in 1923 in the “Country Life Magazine”.

On the 3rd May 1932 after several years of Dormancy the mansion was leased to a Mrs Dorothy Glaister Greaves and what then became the Sherbrook School of Greaves Hall.

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