A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



extent the usual type of a centr.il hall and end wings, 

 DUt the kitchen and offices seem to have been on the 

 north-east side of the hall instc.iJ of at the end, and 

 the arrangement of the hall itself varies in other 

 particulars from the ordinary- type. The south-east 

 wing IS three stories in height, but the roof having 

 gone from the whole of the building, and the walls 

 being broken and imperfect, it is impossible to say 

 whether other parts have ever been of more than 

 two stories. That there was a room over the hall is 

 shown by the window remaining in the tront eleva- 

 tion and by otiier evidence in the hall itself, and the 

 building would probably be of two stories throughout, 

 with attics in the end wings. The south-east wing, 

 however, seems to have been almost wholly rebuilt at 

 a much later period, the windows having the 

 appearance of 18th-century work, and was probably 



Mrs. Susannah Benson, and the rest of the building 

 belongs to the Corporation of Colne. The north- 

 east wing, which includes the old kitchen, has been 

 repaired and is now used as a cottage. 



The great hall is 23 ft. long by 23 ft. 6 in. wide, 

 with a large open fireplace at the north-west end, 

 and a bay in the ea t corner 9 ft. 6 in. wide and 

 10 ft. 9 in. deep. The south-cast end is now open 

 to the wing, but the wall was apparently formerly 

 carried across, making the hall of the dimensions just 

 stated. The fireplace is 12 ft. 6 in. wide and 

 7 ft. 6 in. deep, the back curved on plan, with a 

 stone seat carried all round. The stone arch, which 

 has the appearance of having been rebuilt, is struck 

 from three centres, and is 7 ft. 9 in. high to the 

 crown and 5 ft. to the springing under a square hood 

 mould with blank shields in the spandrels. A 



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Plan ok Wvcoi.ler Hall 



then raised to its present height. .Alterations at the 

 back appear also to have been m.vJeatthe <ivnz time. 

 The north-west wing has no projection in front of 

 the main wall of the central block, but beyonJ it set 

 biLv 9 in. is a presumably later wing 44 ft. in length 

 and originally 25 ft. wide, but at ijme still later 

 d.ite an addition 10 ft. wide has been built in the 

 b.ick. The house, vhich as it now stands is over- 

 grown w.th grass and weed;, '.va abandoned as a 

 residence after the death of the last of the CunlifFes in 

 I. Si 9, but the later north-west block, the walls of 

 which still stand their full height of two stories, had 

 its roof intact till about the year i88o."-' The great 

 hall and south-east wing are now the property of 



passage-way 5 ft. wide runs behind the fireplace with 

 a door from the hall at the south end, and a stone 

 staircase at the north leading to the floor above. 

 The outer door at the end of the passage-way is now 

 built up and a Liter door made in the lobby between 

 it and the hall formed by the deep recess of the fire- 

 place.'" The hall is lit by a long low muUioned 

 window of twelve lights on the south-west ide and 

 by the bay window opposite, the latter apparently 

 having been rebuilt in the 1 8th century. On the 

 north-east side between the bay and the fireplace arc 

 two four-centred arched doorways, now built up, 

 leading to the kitchen and offices, the spandrels of 

 which are ornamented with shields, blank in one case. 



*^ See Illustration in Ormerod's Cal- 

 .L , 16,-. 



"'A t\v^-3tor;ci gabled porch which 



formerly stood at Wycoller Hall was tak.cn 

 down and rc-crectcd in front of a house 

 on the road between Trawdcn and Wine- 



wall i Ormcrod, Calderjalf^ \fi^. The cri- 

 dcnce of the building does not make il 

 clear where the porch originall]- stood. 



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