This a tudor manor house and as always been a family dwelling, the right side of the house which is the original part was built in 1483 by Lawrence Brownlow it is a black and white half timbered structure, and the left is stone and was built in 1648, by its then owner Alexander Norris. Samual Cromptom once lived here and he invented the spinning mule here, since the passing of Crompton it has largely been preserved as a museum to remember him by, mainly thanks to Lord Leverhulme who brought the house in 1899 and presented it to the Borough of Bolton, he continued to buy furnishings for the house right up until his death in 1925. The house is still a museum and holds pieces which were personal to Compton, as well as other items from the era.