Hackensall Hall Farmhouse

Hackensall Hall, also known as Hackensall Hall Farmhouse, is a Grade II listed building on Whinny Lane in Preesall, Lancashire, England. It was built in 1873, though the land was owned by the Fleetwood family since the 17th century. Francis Fleetwood, brother of Richard, built it on the site of an older house after the Fleetwood's original home at Rossall Hall was flooded. The house retains much of its earlier fabric, and has two storeys with attics.

The house has an irregular plan with rear wings and outshuts, and most of the windows are mullioned and transomed. Other features include a single-storey gabled porch and a re-set inscribed plaque. Inside, there is an inglenook. Dorothy Parkinson, who created the first Preesall salt, lived at the farm up until her death in 1925, and raised nine children there. Her husband, John, found over three hundred Roman coins in the Hall's grounds in 1926, estimated to date to around 273 AD.

Nearby Parrox Hall, which has been in the possession of the Elletson family since 1690, was built about the same time as Hackensall Hall.

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