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Samlesbury Lower Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Samlesbury, Lancashire

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Latitude: 53.7785 / 53°46'42"N

Longitude: -2.6143 / 2°36'51"W

OS Eastings: 359612

OS Northings: 431522

OS Grid: SD596315

Mapcode National: GBR BS5R.S8

Mapcode Global: WH96S.T986

Plus Code: 9C5VQ9HP+97

Entry Name: Samlesbury Lower Hall

Listing Date: 11 November 1966

Last Amended: 27 February 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1074094

English Heritage Legacy ID: 358000

ID on this website: 101074094

Location: Elston, South Ribble, Lancashire, PR5

County: Lancashire

District: South Ribble

Civil Parish: Samlesbury

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Samlesbury St Leonard the Less

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


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

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