. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE purchased by John Wilson-Patten, afterwards Lord Winmarleigh. Nateby Hall, now occupied as a farm-house, stands in a sheltered position surrounded by a belt of trees, but is a building of no architectural interest, the greater part having been destroyed by fire about 1870 and the remainder modernized. The exterior is stuccoed and all the windows are modern * In the garden is a fine mulberry tree. In Little Nateby is Bowers House, built about 1627 by Richard He or his son Richard, as '
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE purchased by John Wilson-Patten, afterwards Lord Winmarleigh. Nateby Hall, now occupied as a farm-house, stands in a sheltered position surrounded by a belt of trees, but is a building of no architectural interest, the greater part having been destroyed by fire about 1870 and the remainder modernized. The exterior is stuccoed and all the windows are modern * In the garden is a fine mulberry tree. In Little Nateby is Bowers House, built about 1627 by Richard He or his son Richard, as ' a Papist delinquent,' had his estate sequestered under the Commonwealth,30 and at last sold by the Act of It seems to have been part of the endowment of the Savoy Hospital. The house, though to some extent modernized, preserves a good deal of its original appearance. The building is of three stories with a middle and house doubtless possessed originally some architectural features, but, though these have been lost, it retains some degree of picturesqueness, added to by the dwarf fence wall and tall stone gate piers in front, the latter with large ball finials. The chapel is said to have been in the top room in one of the gables. On the lintel of an outbuilding now used as a wash-house are the date 1627 and the initials R. G., G. G referring to members of the Green family. A large part of the soil remained in the hands of the lords of Nether Wyresdale, and in 1853 the Duke of Hamilton held 1,802 acres in Nateby and the neighbourhood. This estate was pur- chased by William Bashall of Farington Lodge for J£47, Among the recusants who in 1654 sought to com- pound for their sequestrated two-thirds was John Miller alias Atkinson of There were 2. Bowers House projecting end wings, but the old mullioned windows have given place in the front to modern insertions and others have been blocked up. The walls are whitewashed and the gables quite plain, being with- o
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