The first hall was built by the D'Ewyas family and situated on the bank of the river Ribble.
This was destroyed by Robert the Bruce, after the Battle of Bannockburn, when the Scots ransacked and pillaged homes along the banks of the river, from Preston to Clitheroe.
Gilbert de Southworth from Warrington married Alice D'Ewyas in the early 1320's, and five years later built the Great Hall, the oldest part of the building.
Shown below is the beginning of the new Samlesbury Hall, as it may have appeared in 1325.
