BATH LODGE

BATH LODGE, DARK LANE, ORMSKIRK, L40 5TR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1221197
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: BATH LODGE
Statutory Address:: BATH LODGE, DARK LANE, ORMSKIRK, L40 5TR

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Date:: 2003-01-05
Reference:: IOE01/09290/23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1221197
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: BATH LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: BATH LODGE, DARK LANE, ORMSKIRK, L40 5TR

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BATH LODGE, DARK LANE, ORMSKIRK, L40 5TR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 42549 09229

Details

SD40NW 663-1/4/149

ORMSKIRK DARK LANE (OFF) (North West side) Bath Lodge 11/08/72 II* Former folly or hunting lodge. Probably early to mid C18; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with cement render dressings, stone slate roof. Double-depth rectangular plan on north-east/south-west axis. Gothick style. Two storeys and three bays, symmetrical, with high stepped and embattled gable parapets giving a striking outline. The south-east facade has a broad cement-rendered band, a saw-tooth band to a deep moulded brick cornice, a giant two-centred rendered blank arch in the centre with intersecting arched and curvilinear tracery on two levels, similarly rendered two-centred blank arches at ground floor of the flanking bays and rendered blind oculi above, with quadrant tracery. All this tracery is square in section and bold and coarse in treatment. The north-west facade is similar. (Former central chimney stack now collapsed.) The two-bay gable walls have pilasters, deep cornices like the front and rear, and tall embattled parapets; the north-east has two giant rendered arches, and the south west has a doorway at ground floor flanked by eils-de-boeuf, and rendered arches at first floor. INTERIOR: has small rooms and beams with run-out chamfer.

HISTORY: associated with former Cross Hall and with former kennels for hounds nearby.

Listing NGR: SD4260708930

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Legacy System number:: 386386
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.