Forcett Hall

After a fire in 1726 it was substantially redesigned in 1740 in the Palladian style by architect Daniel Garrett under Richard Shuttleworth, MP, vacating the family seat at Gawthorpe to move in.

It passed to his son James, MP for Preston and Lancashire and High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1760–61.

Robert, let Forcett Hall to Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, who remained in occupation when Robert Shuttleworth sold the Forcett Hall Estate in 1785 to Frances Michell and her son, Charles Michell.

Forcett Hall passed by descent until 1938 when it was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Hardress Waller.

It is built of sandstone and brick, with a band, a moulded cornice, and a hipped Westmorland slate roof.

On each face in the ground floor is an open round arch, and on the angles are piers with bases and imposts.

It is constructed of sandstone with hipped Westmorland slate roofs, and consists of a two-storey main range and single-storey wings to the rear, forming a U-shaped plan.

[12][10] At the east entrance to the grounds of the hall is a gateway and lodges in sandstone, built in the early 18th century and all grade II* listed.

[13][10] It stands in 85 hectares of parkland which contains several listed buildings including a grotto incorporating an ice house and mount, a wilderness garden, the Stanwick Late Iron Age Oppidum, and a large collection of veteran and rare trees, including one of the largest cedar trees in the country.