| Summary : Standish Hall, now demolished, was situated to the south-west of the village. The Hall was built at different periods, and consisted of two main blocks at right angles to one another, the south front forming a kind of courtyard enclosed on its north and east sides. The original building appears to have been H-shaped in plan, framed and plastered, on a stone plinth. The middle wing was built in 1574 whilst, to the north of this a brick wing was added, probably in 1684, when many alterations appear to have been made in the original house. The south wing was rebuilt as a chapel in 1742-3. In 1748 a three-story square brick wing was built to the west, and there was a later addition in 1822, when a long one-story wing was built still further west, consisting of dining and drawing rooms. In March 1921 the hall was put up for auction by the French widow of Henry Standish. The estate failed to reach its reserve price of £4,800, when auctioned at the Empress Hall in Wigan, and was therefore withdrawn. The Tudor wing and chapel were eventually dismantled and re-erected in America, although all trace of it has disappeared. The remainder was left in a ruinous state with the last part of the hall, which had been used as two smaller houses, being demolished around 1982. The moat encircling the hall is said to have been filled up in 1780, at which date much of the original building was removed. |