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)

II

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491157

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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