Fulshaw Hall

Fulshaw Hall is a former manor house, now used as offices, built in 1684 for Samuel Finney, with additions made in 1735 for Samuel Finney II and significant alterations in 1886 for R Lingard Monk. The building features Flemish bond plum brick with painted sandstone dressings, a Kerridge stone-slate roof, and brick chimneys, while the extensions are made of Accrington brick with stone dressings.

The original house has a symmetrical 2½-storey, 7-bay front with a stone plinth, rusticated quoins, and projecting stone bands at the first and second floors. The end pairs of bays project under stone-coped gables topped with ball finials. The windows are cyma-moulded stone mullioned and transomed, with a similar 2-light mullioned window in the gable. The doorcase is cyma-moulded and rebated, featuring a studded board door with iron fishtail hinges and a segmental hood above a gilded griffon. Similar windows are present in the flanking bays, and there is a coped blocking course along the eaves. To the right, there are 3-bay additions in a similar but more ornate style.

Inside, the former hall includes a stone fireplace with a heavy wooden overmantel framed by columns and a scrolled pediment, featuring two armorial plaques and the date 1893. The interior has an oak-panelled dado, door reveals with pairs of half fluted pilasters, and 6 and 9-panelled mahogany doors. The ceilings are geometrically panelled with some delicate friezes. An oak well staircase features a monogram LM and a ball finial on the newel post. A date stone reading SF 1735 can be found in the cellar.

Fulshaw Hall was the residence of Samuel Finney III, who served as a miniaturist to Queen Charlotte.