Thomas de Lancaster of Rainhill I - Ruins of the de Lancaster Estate of Rainhill

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Rainhill Hall was owned by the Lancaster family for 500 years. The earliest
documentary reference to a house on the site was in 1323 when Henry de Par was
arrested for breaking into the original hall and stealing goods. By the early
17th century the hall buildings were arranged around a courtyard, with a
gatehouse entrance on one side, and a range of 16th century timber farm
buildings on low stone walls situated northeast of the hall. A small
isolated building is also known to have existed south of the hall and close to
the edge of the moat during the early 19th century. Since 1805 the hall has
passed through the Fleetwood, Beaumont and Stapleton-Bretherton families.
Old Hall Farmhouse is a Listed Building Grade II*.
The Old Hall Farmhouse, the modern house on the site, the farmyard and all
tarmacked and paved areas, all service pipes, outbuildings, walls, fences,
paths, access drives and tracks are excluded from the scheduling, although the
ground beneath all these features is included.

The cost of the keeping up old estates became cost prohibitive for many English families andmany fine estates went in to ruins.