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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26336157

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)