Blythe Hall, Lathom

Blythe Hall is a large grade II listed country house in Lathom, Lancashire, England, some 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Ormskirk.

It is a two-storey building of rendered sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs to an originally H-shaped plan with added wings.

It was sold to the Hill family of Burscough in 1698 and then to Thomas Langton in 1800, who never moved in but instead leased it to Edward Clifton.

The third earl was a spendthrift with a passion for the London theatre and in the 1920s Blythe entertained theatrical celebrities such as Ivor Novello and Noël Coward.

The house was advertised, along with the rest of the Lathom estates, in 1923, and was sold to a cotton merchant named Taylor.

Blythe Hall as shown in sale advert in December 1923
Blythe Hall as shown in sale advert in December 1923