This is a ‘Hall-and-Cross Wing’ house built around 1659, later encased in stone, situated between the Burnley Road and the Rochdale Canal just outside Luddendenfoot. It bears a date stone ‘E.S.S. 1659’ which probably refers to Edward Sutcliffe.
Slide 4a - This the outlaw forbade, and only asked that he should once more draw his bow, and from the window of this room it is narrated he shot his last arrow to denote --
'That where the arrow down should fall,
There buried should he be.'
How…
Outside work on the old vestry continued to give it an upper storey to connect with the 'Upper Room'. Toilets and kitchen were installed below and the servery to the 'Upper Room' was connected to the kitchen by a dumb waiter hoist. The re-cycled…