Barn At Knights Grange Recreation Centre

The barn at Knights Grange Recreation Centre, now a sports complex, dates from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of brown English garden wall bond brick and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has an entrance front divided into three sections, with a slightly projecting central part that includes three cambered-headed doorways on the ground floor. To the right of the centre, there is a mezzanine loft door with stone hinge dressings, along with two 20th-century windows on the first floor that have cambered heads and hinge dressings, suggesting they were originally loft doorways. The first floor also features diamond and Y-shaped breathers.

To the right, there are three ground floor cambered-headed doorways and one cambered-headed shuttered opening. Between the floors, there are X and diamond-shaped breathers, and five first floor cambered-headed windows with Y and diamond-shaped breathers in between. On the left of centre, there is a 20th-century double doorway, a cambered-headed doorway to the left, and another to the right, with a 20th-century inserted window to the right of centre. Two mezzanine doorways lead onto a timber balcony, with cross and diamond-shaped breathers between the floors. A cambered-headed window on the first floor to the right was originally a loft doorway and retains some hinge dressings.

Inside, the barn features four exposed queen post trusses with V-struts at the apex, two sets of purlins, and wind bracing. Some trusses have stop-chamfered end-stopped tie-beams. The barn and the adjacent house were originally part of the property of Vale Royal Abbey.