Barn Approximately Eighty Metres North Of Kirby Hall

KIRBY HALL KIRBY HALL ESTATE SE 4461-4561 9/35 Barn approximately eighty metres north of Kirby Hall GV II Barn. c.1755; altered and re-roofed later. Orange-pink mottled brick in English garden wall bond, on plinth; sandstone impost band and eaves cornice; gauged brick arches. Corrugated asbestos roof. 2-storey, 9-bay front, articulated by full-height recessed blind arches with impost band. Centre bay enlarged to provide full-height entrance beneath inserted steel lintel. Tympana above impost band contain partly-blind lunettes with 9-pane segment-headed centre windows. Over alternate bays, open-brickwork panels provide ventilation. Moulded eaves cornice. Rear: largely obscured by later building. Only alternate bays have windows. Brick dentilled eaves. Returns: 2 storeys and loft, 3 arcaded bays repeating those on front. Front eaves cornice continues across return walls forming pedimented gable ends, containing same lunette windows. Right return originally had round-arched doorway, now blocked. Building is a survival from the original Kirby Hall complex, by Lord Burlington and Roger Morris.

Listing NGR: SE4575361028