. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE his estate as a ' Papist 'in 1717.*** His son Thomas, inheriting the manor of Claughton in Garstang, took the name of Brockholes ; and ultimately Mains, like Claughton, was devised to a relative by marriage, and has thus descended to its present owner, Mr. W. J. Fitzherbert-Brockholes. MAINS HALL stands in a pleasant situation close to the bank of the River Wyre, and was originally a house of very considerable interest, being built on three sides of a quadrangle which was open to the south. To some ext
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE his estate as a ' Papist 'in 1717.*** His son Thomas, inheriting the manor of Claughton in Garstang, took the name of Brockholes ; and ultimately Mains, like Claughton, was devised to a relative by marriage, and has thus descended to its present owner, Mr. W. J. Fitzherbert-Brockholes. MAINS HALL stands in a pleasant situation close to the bank of the River Wyre, and was originally a house of very considerable interest, being built on three sides of a quadrangle which was open to the south. To some extent this disposition still obtains, though the west wing has disappeared and the build- ing has been so much altered and pulled about from time to time that it has lost nearly all its architec- tural interest, and having been for a long time used as a farm-house has suffered much in other ways. central doorway and a projecting gable at the eait end. The doorway, however, is a good piece of 18th-century work with flat canopy supported by carved brackets. The hall has been 'altered and re-altered, modernized and re-modernized,' altera- tions carried out in 1S46 having almost gutted the ; The west wing, which contained the kitchen and offices, was pulled down in the first quarter of the 19th century,54" and is said to have contained a ' hall part' having a huge open chimney and wainscoted with 'fluted oak of the reign of Henry VIII.' ** The west end of the main building has been rebuilt three stories in height in a very plain manner, detracting in a very large measure from the otherwise rather picturesque appearance of the south front, a pictu- resqueness produced mainly by the long line of 17th-. Mains Hall The north side facing the river preserves something of its I 7th-century appearance, having a large middle gable and a smaller one to the east ; but all the windows are modern, and additions have been made from time to time. All the external walls of the mai
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