Gawthorpe Hall

Gawthorpe Hall was built in 1600-5 for the Reverend Lawrence Shuttleworth whose family had settled at Gawthorpe at the end of the 14th century. The supervisor of works and master mason was Anthony Whithead, but the design has been attributed to Robert Smythson. In 1850-2 Sir Charles Barry raised the central staircase tower by one storey and added openwork parapets. The exterior of the house features a central projecting porch with fluted columns, Doric entablature and scrolled finials, rebuilt in 1851 but retaining some original stonework. The front door features decorative ironwork by A.W.N. Pugin. The interiors were extensively remodelled and refurnished by Barry, with contributions by A.W.N. Pugin and J.G. Crace. The house retains fine examples of Jacobean plasterwork and inlaid early 17th-century panelling.

Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire

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Gawthorpe Hall was built for the Shuttleworth family, 1600-05, and has Elizabethan panelling and plasterwork of outstanding quality. It was sensitively restored in the 1850s by Sir Charles Barry in collaboration with A.W.N. Pugin – Gawthorpe being the only country house in which these two great architects of the Palace of Westminster collaborated. As a result, the collection is rich in Gothic Revival furniture, metalwork and textiles.

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