Little Eccleston Hall Farmyard Building

LITTLE ECCLESTON WITH MEAGLES LANE SD 43 NW LARBRECK 5/37 Little Eccleston Hall Farmyard building - GV II

Quadrangular range of farm buildings dated 1820 on keystone of west barn. Red brick with sandstone plinth and dressings, roofs of slate and corrugated sheet. Symmetrical arrangement with open entry in centre of south range, matching barns forming the larger part of the east and west sides, and a long lofted cartshed closing the north end. The barns, which project, have tall segmental-headed wagon doorways with dressed sandstone surrounds (keystone of that on west lettered "1820"), and 6 diamond-pattern breathers on each side. The cart shed was formerly arcaded in the centre with 4 or 5 basket-arched wagon entrances, but these are now blocked and altered; at each end are 2 doorways with massive sandstone lintels and jambstones; and at 1st floor 4 large pitching holes in the form of open stilted lunettes with imposts and archivolts,between Which are X pattern breathers, a relocated datestone over that in the centre lettered in relief "16 6 Returned ends I.F." of this range (with similar openings) link with the barns. South end of yard has single-storey stable and feeding shed flanking the entrance on its east and west sides respectively.

Listing NGR: SD4131839858