Rufford Old Hall
📍 Lancashire, England
About
Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall survives from the original structure. A brick-built wing in the Jacobean style was added in 1661, at right angles to the great hall, and a third wing was added in the 1820s.
Built c.1530 by Sir Robert Hesketh, home to the Hesketh family for over 600 years. The magnificent timber-framed Great Hall survives with a rare hammerbeam roof and an extraordinary moveable carved oak screen — unique among Lancashire houses. Local tradition claims a young Shakespeare performed here as 'William Shakeshafte' in the 1580s. Abandoned c.1798, later restored. National Trust since 1936.
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