Potters Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1973. Gate-house, coach-house, stable. 1 related planning application.
Potters Barn
- WRENN ID
- second-window-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1973
- Type
- Gate-house, coach-house, stable
- Address
- Potters Barn, Crosby Road South, L22 1RG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 323 974
- Coordinates
- 53.46983, -3.01994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potters Barn is a gate-house with an attached coach-house and stables, originally built for a private estate in 1841. It now serves as a park-keeper's lodge and public toilets. The building is constructed from coursed squared red sandstone and features slate roofs in a Tudor style.
The structure consists of two ranges at right angles, connected by an archway. The gate-house, which faces the road, has a large porch supported by side buttresses, a stepped gable, and a prominent Tudor-arched coach entrance that is now blocked internally. Above the arch are two small shields, and there is a lancet-shaped niche in the gable. The rear of the main range features a similar but lower arch, flanked by two-light windows with chamfered flush mullions. The gable has copings with kneelers and a large skylight in the roof, which was lacking glazing at the time of inspection.
Linking the north-west corner of the gate-house with the south-east corner of the former coach-house and stable range is a short full-height screen wall that includes a large Tudor-arched opening. The coach-house and stable range is two storeys high and has three windows. It features a central Tudor-arched coach entrance, which is also blocked, along with a square-headed doorway and two-light mullioned windows on either side at ground level. There are three smaller two-light windows under the eaves, all with chamfered flush mullions. The gable copings have kneelers, and there is a ridge chimney. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Potters Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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