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| Thingwall House | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Jacobethan[1] |
| Town or city | Liverpool |
| Country |  England |
| Construction started | 1869[1] |
| Demolished | 2004[2] |
Thingwall House was a Jacobethan manor house built in 1869 by Henry Arthur Bright, the shipping magnate, and was originally known as Ashfield. It is set on a 4.8-acre (19,000 m2) site in the district of Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England. It should not be confused with Thingwall Hall, a local stately home just a few minutes walk further south.
In 1921 it was bequeathed by the Bright family to the city of Liverpool on condition that it was held in trust to be used as a home for 'girls of feeble mind'. It was owned by the Knotty Ash Special School Trust with Liverpool City Council serving as its trustees.
- ^ a b Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sharples, Joseph (2006). Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest. Yale University Press. p. 438. ISBN 0-300-10910-5. OCLC 237049460.
- ^ "Anger as historic house bulldozed". BBC. 5 May 2004. Retrieved 7 June 2008.