Description

LATHOM

SD40NE HALL LANE 663-1/5/59 (East side) 11/08/72 Ormskirk Lodge with attached screen wall and gate pier (Formerly Listed as: ORMSKIRK LATHOM Ormskirk Lodge and Lathom Lodge (with attached wall and remaining gatepost))

GV II

Entrance lodge to Lathom Park, with attached screen wall and gate pier. c.1730, altered. By Giacomo Leoni. Sandstone ashlar and coursed squared sandstone, slate roof. Gate pier adjacent to drive, with concave quadrant walls to front and rear, lodge attached to the latter. The lodge is octagonal in plan, 2 storeys, with a plinth, rusticated ground floor, 1st-floor band and altered eaves; a square-headed doorway in the south side, with Gibbs surround and altered door; tall windows at ground floor with altered glazing (18-pane top-hung casements), and square 9-pane windows at 1st floor. Chimney and small C20 extension to rear. The high screen walls are ramped up at the south end to meet the gate pier, which has pilasters with emphatic frost-worked bands, a pediment, and a round-headed niche with a keystone. Forms group with Lathom Lodge (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4543909175

External Links

• Wikidata Q26585118

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)