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Cunliffe's Hall, or the Higher Hall. This was built with two 

 wings, the porch forming one at the extreme lower end. The 

 general style of the work is similar to the adjoining halls, but 

 here we specially find a freedom entirely opposed to the classic 

 idea. The door-case has the Tudor arch in a square head, the 

 hall had two windows ; one a two-light, and the other a double 

 row of eight lights all square-headed, while that in the upper 

 wing has six lights all circular-headed ; this variety adds quaint- 

 ness to the general eflect. and is much to be preferred to the 

 stiffness of the classic, which requires absolute uniformity. It 

 was built by the Cunliffes of Hollins and Wycollar, and is dated 

 1637 in the plaster work in the hall. The base and corners are 

 of millstone grit. This is the only house in the district where 

 the chimney has been left entire ; the large opening on the 

 ground floor has been walled up for the insertion of a modern 

 kitchen range, but in the room over, the opening has been 

 boarded up and the chimney left as originally built, the space 

 for the flue being studded round, and the studs covered with 

 rushes and lime instead of laths and plaster as at the present 

 day. The orchard on the west side was planted in the form of 

 a rectangle at the time the hall was built, but the trees are now 

 dying away. 



Worsthorne Old Hall. This is the finest specimen of domestic 

 Architecture we have in this district, but it is now in a most 

 dilapidated condition. The door-case is of the round-headed 

 type, and over this is the following inscription, placed in a sunk 

 moulded panel : — 



GVLIELMVS HALLSTED ET ELIZABETHA VXOR EIUS- 

 Anno Domini 1638- 



Here I must notice an error in Taylor's " Old Halls of Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire," who gives an illustration from a sketch 

 made by the Eev. S. J. Allen, who lived near Burnley between 

 1830 and 1840. He gives it as " gulielmus," but Mr. Tattersall 

 Wilkinson, who has known the place from childhood, says 

 positively it was "robeetus." Above the inscription in the 

 boldly projecting porch is a large six-light window of the full 

 breadth and with four-light returns on each side, all deeply 

 moulded and transomed. In the gable over is a three-light 

 window with the peculiar characteristic window of this district. 

 The gutters empty themselves with the old Gothic termination 

 the gargoyle, and the whole style of the work shews very little 

 sympathy with the Italian movement then in fashion in the 

 southern parts of England. Mr. Philip Gilbert Hamerton, the 

 distinguished artist and editor of the Portfolio, who once resided 

 at the Hollins, not very far from Worsthorne, writing to Mr. 

 Waddington, the Market Inspector, on the 6th May, 1886, 



