[1] Later work was carried out during the time of his son Robert Hesketh (d. 1620), High Sheriff in 1599 and MP for Lancashire in 1597, who added a second arched gateway.

[3] After his death his last wife Jane married Sir Richard de Hoghton and left Martholme to be leased out to tenant farmers.

With the death of Jane ownership passed to her son Thomas but the Heskeths never reoccupied the house itself.

[4] After the Civil War the Hesketh family, as Catholics, were heavily fined, losing much of their land at Great Harwood.

Martholme is constructed, to a T-shaped floor plan, of sandstone rubble, now rendered, with a slate roof.