Endcliffe Hall was the home of John Brown and has been described as the 'most sumptuous of all the steel makers mansions' (Harman & Minnis, 2004, 265). Construction was begun in 1863 on the site of an earlier 19th century hall which itself incorporated part of an 18th century building. The hall became a Territorial Army base in 1914, although parts of the grounds were sold off in 1890. The lodge and stables are now the drill hall and the gardens no longer exist. The building is recognisably a reused mansion although traces of the earlier hall are non existent. Legibility of the previous character types is invisible. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).