New Southworth Hall

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SD 52 NE 5/87

SAMLESBURY CUERDALE LANE New Southworth Hall

(Formerly listed as The Samuel Whitbread)

II Formerly New Hall.

House, C16 and C17, said to have been park lodge to Samlesbury Hall (q.v.) later a restaurant, converted to offices (2018). Sandstone and brick (part rendered and whitewashed) slate roof with one ridge chimney stack. L-shaped plan, two bays with baffle entry, plus a forward crosswing at the left end.

Two storeys; walls of red and yellow rubble and watershot coursing, with large quoins; doorway at centre of main range has exceptionally large rectangular lintel, and jambs of originally wider opening; a similar lintel over window left of door; two boxed sash windows with glazing bars on each floor, and a small casement above the door. Three altered windows in re-entrant of wing. Left side wall has stone extensions of unequal sizes and different dates, with monopitched roofs. Rear wall of brick, various modern extensions.

Interior: internal timber framing of crosswing (posts, chamfered beams, exposed wattle and daub) and its king post roof with raking struts, indicate an early date for this part; main range contains very large bressummer of former inglenook, supported at one end on stone post with cyma-moulded corbel; ovolo-moulded beams on both floors; crudely panelled staircase.

History: plaster overmantel with arms of Thomas Southworth, dated 1588, was removed from crosswing 1923; Fr. Edmund Campion S.J. said to have been harboured here in 1580.

Listing NGR: SD5928629326