• Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house on the banks of the River Calder, in Ightenhill, a civil parish in the Borough of Burnley, Lancashire, England.
  • Many people visit Gawthorpe Hall for the Kay-Shuttleworth textile exhibition which was closed for refurbishment when I visited in Summer 2024.
  • Between 1908 and 1928, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire and it was in this capacity that he entertained King George V and Queen Mary at Gawthorpe Hall in...
  • The Hall's beautiful interiors show life as it was in the Victorian era for the Kay-Shuttleworth family who resided at Gawthorpe for almost 400 years.
  • Inside Gawthorpe, there is a fantastic textiles collection thanks to Lady Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth, one of the owners of the hall and also an embroiderer...
  • An exhibition bringing the household of Gawthorpe Hall in the 1600s to life, through the original account books of the Shuttleworth Family.
  • After the Colonel’s death in 1689, the Shuttleworths preferred to live at another property, Forcett Hall in North Yorkshire, and leased Gawthorpe to tenants.
  • Gawthorpe Hall features a landscape park of about 35 hectares, with Elizabethan-style gardens of about one hectare.
  • In 2015 the Hall was given £500,000 funding from Lancashire County Council for vital restoration work needed on the south and west sides of the house.
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  • Some believe that Gawthorpe Hall was constructed around a pre-existing medieval pele tower (North Lancashire 128).
  • Gawthorpe Hall is one of the most impressive stately homes in North West England.
  • Colonel Richard Shuttleworth fought in the English Civil War and rallied troops at Gawthorpe Hall in 1642 for the parliamentary cause.