It was designed and erected under the supervision of the Italian architect Giacomo Leoni and was a very substantial and uniform edifice, with fine stone columns and corresponding decorative dressings.
[3] At the 1727 British general election Bold was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for Wigan under an agreement made with Lord Barrymore.
He was returned unopposed as MP for Lancashire at a by-election on 4 May 1736 when Sir Edward Stanley went to the House of Lords.
He stood unsuccessfully for Lancashire at the 1747 British general election and was returned there unopposed at a by-election on 23 January 1750.
The eldest, Anna Maria, succeeded to Bold Hall and his other estates, and died unmarried in 1813, aged eighty-one.