Samlesbury Lower Hall

Samlesbury Lower Hall is a house built around 1625, now in ruins with only the front wall remaining. It is constructed from red sandstone with yellow and white stone dressings. The original layout is not known, but the building is 9 bays long and was originally two storeys high, with 1½ storeys remaining. The central feature is a 3-storey gabled porch made of rusticated ashlar, which includes a hollow-chamfered doorway. The first-floor window openings are tall, while those above are square.

The left side of the building features squared sandstone coursed and watershot, with four large double-chamfered cross windows that are irregularly spaced and connected by bands of yellow stone at the transom and head levels. The right side, also made of coursed and squared sandstone, has a continuous dripstone at window head level and five window openings, with the inner two being deeper and blocked, while the others are chamfered cross windows. There are two similar windows in the right return wall and remnants of nine first-floor windows.

Historically, the house was built by Thomas Walmsley of Dunkenhalgh to replace the original Lower Hall after he purchased a share of the manor of Samlesbury from the Southworth family.