Lawshalls

Lawshalls is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays facing south, consisting of two long bays and a short bay to the right. There is a 19th-century stack at the rear of the middle bay and a two-storey extension made of red brick beyond it. To the left, there is a 20th-century two-storey flat-roofed extension, and a single-storey extension with a concrete tile roof to the left. Additionally, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a corrugated tile roof to the right of the rear wing. The house is two storeys high and features a two-window range of early 19th-century sashes with 16 lights. There is a 20th-century glazed door with an open pediment. On the first floor of the right return, there is one similar sash window. Inside, serpentine tension braces are trenched inside the studs and are partly exposed. A plain doorhead is found in the studded partition between the middle and right bays, while the studded partition between the middle and left bays has been removed on the ground floor. There is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops in the middle bay, and the joists are supported on pegged clamps. The walls have been raised above the original low wallplates. The owner possesses deeds from the 18th century related to the manor of Colne Priory.