Allerton Hall
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Allerton Hall
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| Location | Clarke's Gardens, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England |
| Coordinates | 53°21′48″N 2°52′45″W / 53.3634°N 2.8791°WCoordinates: 53°21′48″N 2°52′45″W / 53.3634°N 2.8791°W |
| OS grid reference | SJ 415 855 |
| Built | c. 1736 |
| Built for | John Hardman, William Roscoe |
| Architectural style(s) | Palladian |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Designated | 14 March 1975 |
| Reference no. | 1063751 |
 Location in Merseyside
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Allerton Hall is in Clarke's Gardens, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
During the medieval period the manor of Allerton was held by the Lathom family.
During her long widowhood, Elizabeth Lathom(née Legh) the wife of Richard Lathom (1563–1602), occupied Allerton Hall. And by her Will and Codicil, both executed in July, 1624, gave her second son, Edward Lathom, the occupation and profit of “this my hall in Allerton," and the houses and lands for three years after her death for the better discharging of her debts and to keep her other sons, Richard and John, “with dyet." and until her grandson, Richard Lathom (of Parbold, son of Thomas who died in 1623), then an infant of about two years old, the heir of Parbold and Allerton, "came of age".
Richard Lathom, a Royalist, fought alongside his uncles in the English Civil War. Richard survived the war but his Estate was "forfeited in the name of treason" by Cromwell's parliament in 1652.
"The commissioners" (of parliament who had confiscated the estate) sold it in 1654 to a John Sumpner of Midhurst, Sussex. for £2,700. Notwithstanding that the Lathoms, father, mother, and children, now dispossessed, were frequently convicted of recusancy and suffered the penalties accordingly, they contrived to hang on to both Parbold and Allerton a little longer. Indeed, it was not until 1670 that the Sumpners managed to eject the Lathoms, and only then by increasing the amount of the original purchase price.
When assessments were made for the hearth tax in 1666, Allerton Hall was one of the larger houses in the parish of Childwall with eight hearths; this was exceeded only by Speke Hall with twenty-one hearths and Brettargh Holt with nine. The estate was bought in 1736 by John Hardman and his brother James, and it is likely that the present house on the site originates from this time. John Hardman was a West Indies merchant originally from Rochdale.
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