Coldcoates Hall, Whalley

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269467

Reference identifier

ECL20131105017

Title

Coldcoates Hall, Whalley

Place

Whalley

General notes

Cold Coats Hall (in older documents sometimes referred to as Coalcotes, Coldcoats, Cold Coates or Coldcoates) sits alone (there is no surrounding hamlet now, although there are some historical references to a hamlet in the vicinity of the Hall) at the foot of Pendle. It is markedly above the old road mid-way between Wiswell and Pendleton. Historically it was part of a township of Mitton, Henthorn and Coldcoats.

The present house appears to date from the mid 16th Century and probably on an E-shaped plan. It is now a farm.

Coldcoats itself is best seen as an area rather than a single settlement.
According to the authoritative Victoria County History for Lancashire (available via British History Online or BHO), the small manor of Coldcoats was originally part of the adjoining Manor of Great Pendleton but, as happened routinely after the Norman conquest, was used as an instrument of lordly power and influence. Roger De Lacy, for example, granted Coldcoats land to the son of the Dean of Whalley Abbey in return for his care of Sir Roger's hunting dogs. The land was later occupied by a family taking Coldcoats as their name. Richard de Coldcoats gave his lands to Whalley Abbey in 1363.

After the dissolution of the Abbey the Coldcoats lands were initially rented to three tenants then sold in 1542 to Robert Holt. By 1568 it appears that Coldcoats had been absorbed and become to a degree synonymous with Little Mitton, and associated with other messuages of lands in Wiswell and Downham. Henthorn, on the edge of Clitheroe, was also added to these possessions.

In 1586 these lands were sold to Robert Walmesley, a younger brother of Sir Thomas Walmesley of Dunkenhalgh. His family retained Coldcoats until the mid -18th Century when it was bought by the Piers Starkie of Huntroyde.

Medium

Glass slide, positive

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

7.34 x 5

Year of image

c1900

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Locator

Box G W/24

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