Blythe Hall
Blythe Hall is a large country house in the village of Lathom , about 3 miles northeast of Ormskirk in the English county of Lancashire .
The two-story building made of stucco-decorated sandstone - quarry stone with a slate roof originally had an H-shaped floor plan, to which wings were later added. It is considered a historical building of the 2nd degree.
history
It is believed that Blythe Hall was built in the late 16th or early 17th century. It was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century.
The country house once belonged to Evan Blackledge , who died in 1612. After that, several generations of the Blackledge family owned it . In 1698 it was sold to the Hill family of Burccough and again in 1800 to Thomas Langton . He never moved in there, but leased it to Edward Clifton . In 1826 he sold it to Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale . His eldest son lived there with his wife Jessy . Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom , was born in the house in 1837, as was his sister, Rose Bootle-Wilbraham, in 1842 . Her mother died in 1892, leaving the house to her daughter Rose, who never married and died in 1918.
In 1918–1921, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom , (1895–1930) had Blythe Hall radically rebuilt and expanded for £ 60,000. He was reluctant to have the family seat Lathom House restored and to live again after the First World War . Much of the building materials used in the remodeling of Blythe Hall came from Lathom House. The third earl was a spendthrift with a penchant for theater in London, and in the 1920s he hosted greats like Ivor Novello and Noël Coward . After the earl's untimely death from tuberculosis , the earldom became extinct and the property was sold to a cotton company called 'Taylor' in 1930. In 1933 the Catholic seminary for the training of Passionist priests was installed there. The house was then called St Gabriel's Retreat . Ex-soccer player David Whelan bought it in 1973 for £ 80,000 and sold it to hoteliers John and Diana Craig in 1980 .
In 1975 the house was reduced in size by demolishing the oldest parts. In 2010, the new owners, Andy and Tracey Bell from Rufford, gave it another makeover.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blythe Hall, Lathom . In: British Listed Buildings . Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ↑ Stephen Clarke: The New Lancashire Gazetteer . 1930.
- ↑ Lancashire: biographies, Rolls of Honor . Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ↑ Timelines . The Lathom Angel. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ Lathom's Blythe Hall gets a massive makeover . Ormskirk and Slelmersdale Advertiser. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '0.6 " N , 2 ° 50' 58.6" W.