Penwortham Hall (Incorporating Penwortham Lodge)

This is a house, built in 1801, with an early 19th-century addition known as Penwortham Lodge. The house is constructed from ashlar and brick, with a hipped slate roof hidden by a parapet. It has a square, five-bay plan, with a shallow three-bay extension to the south. The building is two storeys high, with a basement, and is designed in a classical style. Features include a plinth, band, moulded cornice, and a low parapet. The windows are primarily sash windows with glazing bars, except for one on the side and one at the rear, which have been replaced with doors. The symmetrical west front features a large porch supported by paired Ionic columns, topped with an entablature featuring dentils and a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The doorway within the porch has margin lights flanked by pilasters and columns, under an elliptical fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The south front, which forms Penwortham Lodge, is brick-built, three bays wide and three storeys high, with a basement. The symmetrical front has a raised entrance with a pedimented stone doorcase, margin lights, and a doorway topped with a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars. The first and second floors have sash windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor windows consist of a sash window with margin lights on the left and casements on the right. The interior has been altered by conversion into flats, but retains two good open-well cantilevered staircases, window shutters, fragments of original vine friezes, and one original fireplace. The house was originally built by John Horrocks, a founding partner of the large cotton firm Horrocks, Miller and Co. in Preston, and was sold to William Marshall in 1829.