Samlesbury Lower Hall

SD 53SE SAMLESBURY POTTER LANE

1/95 Samlesbury Lower Hall 11.11.1966 (Formerly listed as Lower Hall (now used - II as loose boxes for new houses of 1878))

House, c.1625, now ruined, only the front wall remaining. Red sandstone with yellow and white stone dressings. Original plan not known, but 9 bays in length. Two storeys (1½ remaining) with central 3-storey gabled porch of rusticated ashlar, hollow-chamfered doorway, window openings tall at 1st floor and square above. Left and right sides differ: left side of squared sandstone coursed and watershot, has 4 large double- chamfered cross windows irregularly spaced and linked at transom and head levels by bands of yellow stone. Right side of coursed and squared sandstone has continuous dripstone at windowhead level, and 5 window openings, the inner 2 deeper and blocked, the others being chamfered cross windows. There are 2 similar windows in the right return wall; and vestiges of 9 first floor windows. History: built c.1625 by Thomas Walmsley of Dunkenhalgh to replace original Lower Hall, following his purchase of moiety of manor of Samlesbury from Southworth family (R. Eaton History of Samlesbury, p.57).

Listing NGR: SD5961231522