Barn On West Side Of Farmyard To South West Of Meols Hall

SOUTHPORT

SD31NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/2/250 (South side (off)) 15/11/72 Barn on west side of farmyard to south-west of Meols Hall (Formerly Listed as: CHURCHTOWN Farm buildings to South West of Meols Hall)

GV II

Barn, now store or garage. Probably later C17; altered. Hand-made red brick in irregular English garden wall bond, with sandstone plinth, roof of stone slates with some Welsh slate. Rectangular plan on north-south axis. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays, the north end partitioned and lofted; with a continuous outshut to the east front. 4:4 windows divided by a wagon entrance off-set slightly left; a 2-course plinth of large dressed stone blocks, and a brick corbel table over the ground floor. The wagon entrance has an integral porch under a roof raised slightly above the main range, with a timber lintel and reused timber purlins. The side ranges each have a central doorway flanked by a pair of square 6-pane windows at ground floor, various blocked slit-breathers at this level, and 4 oblong 6-pane windows under the eaves. The north gable wall has a flight of stone steps to a loft in the outshut (the loft doorway interrupting a band like that at the front), a doorway at ground floor flanked by 3-light brick-mullioned windows, a 5-light brick-mullioned window above, and a blocked or blind 3-light window with similar mullions in the gable above; all these windows have chamfered mullions and wooden lintels under saw-tooth bands. The west front has slit-breathers on 3 levels, an altered wagon doorway and 3 windows to the north portion only. INTERIOR: 5 king post trusses, all with reused principals. Forms group with Gate piers and wall of courtyard (qv), Barn on east side (qv), Cart shed on south side (qv) and Meols Hall to east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3652118274