A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



doorway and the flanking «ladows belong." A 

 stone still prcscn-ed at the back of the house over the 

 door leading to the kitchen court has the date 1576 

 wth the initials E.S., and there is a similarly inscribed 

 stone on the front near the ground at the south-east 

 angle of the west wing. The date most likely 

 gives the year of the first building on the site, 

 which was of two stories with muUioned windows 

 and plain gables to the wings, which projected 8 ft. 

 A small gate- house, 22 ft. by 14 ft., appears to have 

 been erected in 1631 at a distance of 4.7 ft. on the 

 north side, forming the entrance to a courtyard 

 about 92 ft. in length inclosed by walls. On the 

 east side of the court, however, according to the 



reauired by the necessities o^ the new wing. This 

 18th-century building, which i» 92 ft. long and 

 planned on the regular classic lines of the time, 

 contains on the ground floor a drawing-room and 

 dining-room e.ich 30 ft. by 21 ft., on either 

 side of a central octagonal apartment opening to the 

 garden with a circular staircase hall behind, from 

 which a corridor runs along the north side of the 

 rooms. The central feature projects as a wide bay 

 on south and north, and the building, which is of a 

 very plain character, with square sash windows, 

 embattled parapets and hipped roof, is of two 

 stories, the walls being of squared ashlar blocks on a 

 low rusticated base.*^^ A long servants' wing running 



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Plan of Huntroyde, 1777 



iSth-centurv pbn, were stables and other outbuild- 

 ing?, probably a new wing erected at the same time 

 as the gate-house or shortly after, and attached to 

 the original east wing of the house. 



In 1777 a large new wing was erected attached to 

 the south-west angle of the old building, standing in 

 front of it its full width of 35 ft., and such alterations 

 were made to the older portion of the house as were 



northwards from the east "ing of the old house 

 appears to have been erected shortly afterwards,"* and 

 the elevation of the old building underwent some 

 alteration, the plain gables and wall between being 

 ' ornamented ' by battlements and sash windows 

 were introduced. 



In 1850'' a large wing containing a library and 

 entrance hall supported by marble pillars was added 



** The passage-TCay behind the screen 

 in the iSth century plan has a doorway at 

 the n.Ttth end only, with a porch Unable 

 with the outer wall of a staircase which 

 stood 6 ft. in front of the hall chimney 

 on the north side. The original entrance 

 to the house would be, however, by a door 



at the south end of the screen, which 

 was presumably done away with in the 

 T7th-century alterations. 



^ At the south-east and south-west 

 angles of the base are cut the initials 

 L G S and the date 1777. 



*^* There is a reference to proposed 



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additions in 1789 amongst t^e estate 

 papers. 



" Before this date buildings of some 

 nature appear to have been erected to the 

 west of the i8th-ctntury wing, giving 

 balance to some extent to the appearance 

 of the front elevation, but they were re- 



