Buckshaw Hall: A 17th-century manor house

Buckshaw Hall is a Grade II* listed 17th-century country house in Buckshaw Village, Euxton, some 3 miles north-west of Chorley, England. The estate was originally owned by the Anderton family of Euxton Hall, who in 1652 sold it to Major Edward Robinson Melmoth, who built the present hall in 1654. The estate was later sold to John Walmsley and passed to the Towneley Parkers of Cuerden Hall and the Crosse family of Shaw Hill. In 1885, Colonel Thomas Richard Crosse carried out extensive restoration of the southern wing.

In 1936, the estate and surrounding farmland were sold to the Ministry of Supply to establish a new munitions factory known as ROF Chorley. The hall was used for office accommodation until the factory closed in 2005, at which point the site was transferred back to private ownership. Much of the land is being developed for housing as Buckshaw Village.

Today, Buckshaw Hall remains a timber-framed manor house on a high sandstone plinth with infilling in wattle and daub and brick. The building features an H-shaped plan with a projecting stair turret, jettied upper floors, and wavy bargeboards. Inside, the structure retains its inglenooks, bressumers, and timber-framed partitions.

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