The house was constructed in 1771 of red brick and stone on rising ground.

On the latter's death in 1770 it passed to his nephew, Sir Richard Clayton, the consul at Nantes, who was created a baronet in 1774.

Sir Richard died in 1828 and the estate was inherited by his daughter Henrietta, who had married General Robert Browne.

His only son died at Sevastopol and Adlington Hall passed to James Robert Browne Clayton Dawbeny.

After the Claytons the hall was occupied in turn by John Gerrard, a cotton manufacturer and Benjamin Davies, owner of the Huyton Bleachworks.