Unexecuted designs for alterations and additions to Thornton Manor, Thornton Hough, Merseyside, for Sir William Heskett Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme): details for the carriage front

NOTES: The house was rented by William Heskett Lever (later 1st Viscount Leverhulme) in 1888 and bought outright by him in 1891. In 1896-1897 the house was remodelled by Douglas and Fordham in Jacobean Revival style but their work was largely swept away by the further rebuilding carried out by Lomax-Simpson also in Jacobean style. Of Douglas and Fordham's work only two shaped gables and semicircular bay windows on the entrance front survived . Simpson was also responsible for the half-timber and stone gatehouse of 1910 but further, more ambitious, plans for remodelling the house remained unexecuted.