Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/04/2015

SD41SW
663-1/2/161

ORMSKIRK
HIGH LANE (South East side)
Blythe Meadow

(Formerly listed as Burscough Cottage)

11/08/72
II
Former farmhouse. Mid to later C18, altered, and with large recent extensions to the rear. Handmade brown brick in Flemish bond (sides and rear rendered), with sandstone dressings and stone slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan. Two storeys and attics, 2 windows, symmetrical; the doorway has a pedimented architrave with flat pilasters and a pulvinated frieze; the windows have raised sills and wedge lintels with pseudo voussoirs, and altered glazing. Gable chimneys (both cut down).
INTERIOR: narrow entrance hall with semi-elliptical archway, keystone, fielded panels; dog-legged staircase with closed string, stick balusters and ramped moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: SD4258510016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491544

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (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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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)