Claughton Hall
The building in 2011
Location within Lancashire
General information
Type	Country house
Location	Claughton, Lancashire
Country	England
Coordinates	54°05′19″N 2°39′19″W / 54.088724°N 2.655216°W / 54.088724; -2.655216
Opened	c. 1600 (1600)
Technical details
Material	Sandstone
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated	4 October 1967
Reference no.	1071676

Claughton Hall (Claughton pronounced /ˈklæftən/ KLAF-tən) is a large country house in the English village of Claughton, Lancashire. A Grade I listed building, it dates to around 1600, but it contains material believed to be from the 15th century.^[1]

The building was moved to its present site, from the bottom of the hill on which it sits,^[2] in 1932–35. It is built in sandstone with stone-slate roofs. At each end of the north front are tall projecting towers; the left tower is gabled, and the right tower has a hipped roof. In the top storey of both towers are continuous mullioned and transomed windows. The recessed section between them contains two chimneys on corbels, and a doorway flanked by three-light windows, and with an oriel window above.^[3][4]

It has been the home of former Blackpool F.C. owner Owen Oyston since the 1970s.^[5][6] Oyston was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at the property in 1996.^[7]

See also

• Listed buildings in Claughton, Lancaster

References

Sources

• Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) , Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
• Historic England, "Claughton Hall, Claughton, Lancaster (1071676)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 April 2015