Samlesbury Lower Hall
SAMLESBURY LOWER HALL, POTTER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074094
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Samlesbury Lower Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SAMLESBURY LOWER HALL, POTTER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074094
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Samlesbury Lower Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAMLESBURY LOWER HALL, POTTER LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SAMLESBURY LOWER HALL, POTTER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Samlesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59612 31522
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Eaton, R, History of Samlesbury, (1936), 57
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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