The Rookery, With Attached Coach House

LATHOM

SD40NE HALL LANE 663-1/5/66 (West side) The Rookery, with attached coach-house

GV II

Vicarage, now private dwelling. Mid to later C19; slightly altered and recently extended. Red brick in English bond with blue brick patterning sandstone dressings and green slate roof with fishscale bands. L-plan formed by a square double-pile main range with a service wing to the rear; and now linked (by C20 additions) to a contemporary coach-house. Gothic (in the style of Street or Webb). Two storeys with an east entrance front of approximately 3 bays, vigorously asymmetrical: in the centre is a single-storey porch which has a shouldered stone doorway with Tudor-arched 3-light overlight, bands of checker-work at impost level, and a steeply-pitched half-hipped roof with plain bargeboards and a branched cast-iron finial; above the porch, a turret-like half-dormer with a cross-window and steeply-pitched hipped roof with a similar finial; to the left is an extruded chimney stack with slight offsets of tumbled brick and a vertical panel with a stone shield at the top (and rebuilt flues above); and to the right is a steeply-gabled bay which has a mullion-and-transom 6-light window at ground floor with a brick relieving arch, a tall cross-window at 1st floor with arched patterning above, plain barge boarding and a finial like the others. The south front (to the garden), of 2 bays under unequal gables, has a stone canted bay window at ground floor to the left, and 6-light windows like that at the front. The west side is in similar style, but has an added conservatory. The coach-house at the rear, recently altered, is rectangular, 2 storeys and 3 windows, formerly symmetrical; with a doorway in the centre, a window above this with a gablet over, a coach garage to the right with a chamfered wooden lintel, and a garage to the left altered as a loose box, loading doors over each of these, and a half-hipped roof with finials. HISTORY: built as parsonage to Lathom Park Chapel of St John. Forms a group with Lathom Park CE Primary School approx. 250m. south (q.v.), with Preston Lodges on the east side of the road (q.v.), and with The Croppers approx. 150m north (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4545509748