Large Italianate villa built in 1848 for Thomas Blake of the type founders Stephenson Blake (Harman & Minnis 2004; Scheduled Ancient Monument 176). The hall is currently reused as a Territorial Army Volunteer Centre. Before the building of the hall, the site was probably enclosed as part of the parliamentary enclosure award in Brightside in 1795 from Pitsmoor common. Fragmentary legibility of earlier road forming the southern boundary of this unit.