. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. lands in Heath Charnock of Lord Mounteagle by a rent of lod. His son and heir Thomas was twenty- six years of age.' Pedigrees were recorded at the visitations of 1533, 1567 and 1613, so that it is easy to trace the descent.' Thomas Asshaw left a daughter and heir Anne, who married Sir John Radcliffe of Ordsall,' the heir male being Thomas's younger brother Leonard of Shaw Hall in Flixton. From this time Hall of the Hill sinks into obscurity. It appears on the dispersal of the Rad- cliffe estates to have been pur- chased by Wi
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. lands in Heath Charnock of Lord Mounteagle by a rent of lod. His son and heir Thomas was twenty- six years of age.' Pedigrees were recorded at the visitations of 1533, 1567 and 1613, so that it is easy to trace the descent.' Thomas Asshaw left a daughter and heir Anne, who married Sir John Radcliffe of Ordsall,' the heir male being Thomas's younger brother Leonard of Shaw Hall in Flixton. From this time Hall of the Hill sinks into obscurity. It appears on the dispersal of the Rad- cliffe estates to have been pur- chased by William Radley,' from whom it descended to Thomas Ainscough, clerk, and was acquired about 1690 by Thomas Willis,' de- scending to Richard Willis of Halsnead and being sold to George Case of Liverpool, the owner in 1836.* HALL O' TH' HILL, as its name implies, stands on high ground a little to the east of the road from Adlington to Chorley, and is a three-story stone building with a frontage facing west about 70 ft. in length. The house is said to have been built in 1724, and the design shows a care for symmetry and a certain classical taste in the detail of the doorway and in the overhanging bracketed eaves which would seem to support this statement, though the general appearance of the building with its numerous mullioned windows is rather that of the late 17th century.' The chief features of the principal front are the semi- octagonal bay windows at either end, projecting 9 ft. 6 in. and carried up the full height of the building. Asshaw. Argent on a cheveron betvjeen three martlets vert as many crosses formy Jitchy of the fold. terminating in hipped roofs carried back to the main end gabled roof of the house. The bays have mullioned windows all round on each floor, the lower openings being also transomed. The lines of the floors are marked externally by string courses which are carried round the bays, and check to some extent the otherwise vertical appearance of the eleva- ti
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