The Cruck Barn 2001

In 2001 Gilling Dod acquired the Cruck Barn which was originally part of the Duxbury Estate and is believed to have been built in the late 16th or early 17th century. We immediately began renovating and fitting out the empty shell which is now our registered Head Office.

The estate was owned by the Standish family, local landowners and latterly industrialists. They acquired the lands in the 14th Century when the original owner, Adam de Dokesbury from whom the area takes its name, chose the wrong side in the Banastre Rebellion and were dispossessed by the King. The Standish family held substantial lands around the Chorley area for many years, but suffered at the turn of the 20th century from the loss of the direct line of succession and the estate passed into the hands of the Borough Council in the 1930’s.