Description

LATHOM

SD40NW BLYTHE LANE 663-1/4/40 (East side (off)) 11/08/72 Jumps Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: ORMSKIRK BLYTHE LANE, Lathom Ayscough's Farmhouse)

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Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1690 in gable of wing; extended, altered and recently enlarged. Handmade red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1) with sandstone plinth and stone slate roof. T-plan formed by one-unit main range with cross-wing to left and early extension to right (and now with cross-wing to right, added 1985). Two storeys, 1+2 windows, with a vertical joint in the centre of the main range; a doorway immediately to the left of this joint (now covered by a small gabled porch, added c.1985) and a small blocked chamfered window at 1st floor above this; a 24-pane fixed window each side of the porch and a C20 French window in the gable of the wing; three 3-light windows at 1st floor with small panes and top-hung casement openings in the centre lights; and in the gable of the wing a datestone with raised lettering: T W A 1690 Ridge chimney in line with porch and corner chimney to wing. At the rear the housepart has a segmental-headed 3-light casement window and a blocked segmental-headed firewindow at ground floor, and a small blocked window above the latter like that at the front; the wing has an anciently-blocked segmental-headed stairwindow, a 2-light sliding sash window at ground floor and a 3-light casement above. INTERIOR: the housepart has an ovolo-moulded lateral beam and an inglenook with a cambered bressummer; the wing has a cross-corner fireplace; otherwise, altered.

Listing NGR: SD4435109997

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491157

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)