Blythe Hall
BLYTHE HALL, BLYTHE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297543
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Blythe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTHE HALL, BLYTHE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297543
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Blythe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLYTHE HALL, BLYTHE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTHE HALL, BLYTHE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lathom
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 43849 09990
Details
LATHOM
SD40NW BLYTHE LANE 663-1/4/38 (North West side) 11/08/72 Blythe Hall
II
Large house. Probably late C16 or early C17 in origin but altered in early C19 and radically altered and enlarged c.1920 for the 3rd Earl of Lathom; and reduced c.1975 by demolition of the earliest range. Scored stucco on sandstone rubble, with green slate roof; C20 additions of sandstone ashlar with stone slate roofs. Irregular plan composed of H-plan original building with extensive wings attached to rear corner of right-hand wing. Two storeys and attics, the older portion: 1:5:1 windows, symmetrical, with a plinth and string course carried round; a wide single-storey C20 stone porch in the centre, a 2-light window above this, pairs of 2-light windows on both floors, those at ground floor with hoodmoulds, and in the gables of the wings similar casements of 3, 2 and 1 lights on successive floors, all with hoodmoulds. Two ridge chimneys. The return side of the left wing has a C20 bay window and conservatory at ground floor; the return side of the right-hand wing has (inter alia) a 2-storey canted bay. The C20 wing, joined to the rear corner by a link, is a symmetrical composition of 1:3:1 windows, with gabled ends which have 2-storey 5-sided bays with cross-windows, and a 3-bay centre which has an arcaded loggia at ground floor and 3-light mullioned windows above. To the rear of this is a C20 wing in simpler style containing a swimming pool; and there are other C20 rear service wings (etc). INTERIOR: the main range of the original house was entirely remodelled c.1920 as an open hall with a dramatic 2-storey colonnaded Ionic screen to a staircase occupying most of the rear wall; the room to the right has elaborate panelling said to have been removed from Lathom Hall when it was demolished shortly after the 1st World War; the swimming pool in the rear wing is in the style of a Roman temple, with mosaic columns; and at 1st floor are 7 en suite bathrooms with mosaic walls and early C20 fittings. HISTORY: remodelled by the 3rd Earl of Lathom as a residence to replace Lathom Hall, and used in the 1920s for entertaining his theatrical friends such as Ivor Novello and Noel Coward; subsequently occupied by Roman Catholic seminary.
Listing NGR: SD4384909990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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