Image Type
textual description
Image Date
mid-17th c.
Source
Baines, County Palatine 3.457--8
Textual Description
'This tower was build [sic] in Queen Eliz. raigne by one Tho. Houghton, who translated this manor-house, formerly placed below the hill nere unto the water side. Betwixt the inward square court and the 2d, was a very tall strong tower or gate house, which in the late and unhappy civil wars was accidentally blown up with powder, with some adjacent buildings after the surrender thereof....'
The description cited by Baines comes from the MSS collections, mostly relating to the history of Lancashire, of Dr Kuerden, a local 17th c. antiquary.