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off are the remains of the Alms Houses established in 1672, and 
a barn 1711. Many tenements are now in a ruinous condition, 
but the appearance of the place cannot have altered much during 
the last 250 years. Some thatched houses still remain. The old 
Knight Sir Richard Hoghton of Little Pendleton Hall, and later 
on Sir Henry the Seneschal, used to hold courts in the village. 
We find that Pendleton sent three of its sons to swell the force 
of 400 men demanded of the Blackburn Hundred in 1578, and 
in 1574 the noble knight of the village had also to aid in the 
equipment of the regiment. 
One branch of the Hoghtons settled in this now secluded spot. 
Sir Richard Hoghton was the natural son of Sir Adam Hoghton 
of Hoghton Tower, and he married the heiress of R. Radcliffe, 
whose property Pendleton was. This enterprising Hoghton must 
have entered into possession of the half-timbered mansion at 
Pendleton early in the 15th century, as in 1409 he was elected 
Knight of the Shire, and is described as residing at Pendleton. 
So far as a description is concerned but little can be said of the 
capacious residence of the Pendleton Hoghtons. All that remains 
of it stands in a lovely dell immediately contiguous to the main 
road leading from Clitheroe to Sabden. On its south western side 
dashes one of Pendle’s most turbulent streams, and it is surround- 
ed by a thick grove of trees. What is left appears to be the 
western wing of the main building, but the intelligent explorer 
can readily reproduce in his mind from this fragment something 
of what it must have been in the days of its prosperity. A cor- 
responding wing to the portion left would probably occupy the 
opposite side, and the two wings as at ‘ Coldcoates,” would 
be connected at right angles, but displaying a southern frontage. 
Judging from the present capacious wing Pendleton Hall would 
be an elegant mansion and worthy of its predecessors. The 
cuspated windows, a class of window in that immediate district 
very seldom met with in domestic buildings, would impart to it 
a picturesque and slightly ecclesiastical character. There are 
some examples of these windows with labels over them in the 
southern end of the existing wing, the thick muilions of which 
are in good preservation. There is a shapeless porch with a 
storey over it on the western side of the present dwelling, but 
this is evidently an addition due to the necessities of agricultural 
convenience, since the older parts have passed away. The high- 
pitched roof gives ample garret room, and the old and massive 
oak boards have little trace of decay. Some carving is conspicu- 
ous on fragmentary portions of boards stowed away in the attics. 
The porch conducts to a large chamber on the right hand in 
which one of the ample fire-places of Tudor times can be traced 
in the northern wall. The walls of the rooms on the ground 
floor are in some places as thick as the outer ones (8ft.) but 
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