Somewhat simplistically described by Mate in 1906 as ‘partly old and partly modern’, Sodylt was then a substantial rambling house of stuccoed-brick with several gabled projections. It was reduced in size in the later twentieth century and is now a building that appears essentially early eighteenth-century. The drawing room contains oak panelling that is possibly of seventeenth-century date.

Sodylt was the seat of Josiah Boydell in 1837, and he also owned nearby Kilhendre (q.v.). By 1851 the house was owned by Miss Boydell and let to a barrister, George Bennett. In 1865 the property had passed to Isaac Scott Hodgson, when the Liverpool architect William Culshaw designed alterations and additions.

Hodgson’s daughter Sarah married George Henry Horsfall of Liverpool. The Horsfalls were a wealthy family of stockbrokers who acted as benefactors in the building of a number of Liverpool churches: G.H. Horsfall had provided the funds for Christ Church, Sefton Park, to the designs of Culshaw and Sumners in 1870–1. By 1906, Sodylt had passed to the Horsfalls’ son, William Hodgson Horsfall, a barrister, who continued to own the property in 1917 and who was succeeded by his nephew, W.S. Corbet-Lowe. Sodylt was later owned by the Dewhurst cotton family but is now the property of the Scott family.