Description

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW WIGAN ROAD, Westhead
663-1/4/197 (North side)
Barn approx. 5m E of Lund's
Farmhouse

GV II

Barn. Later C18; slightly altered. Handmade red brick in
English garden wall bond (4+1), stone slate roof. Three bays,
with an integral outshut to the rear of the 3rd. A tall
building in relation to its length, with a large
semi-elliptical headed waggon doorway in the centre (with
stone imposts and 2 stone hinge-anchors in each jamb), and
wooden double doors; diamond-pattern breathers on 3 levels,
and similar breathers in the left gable wall, (right-hand
corner recently rebuilt in C20 brick). The right-hand return
wall has a blocked segmental-headed doorway; and the rear has
a square-headed waggon doorway with pegged wooden doorcase.
INTERIOR: triangular piers to the doorways, with lamp-holes;
brick partition to east bay, with large 2-centred archway to
loft; 2 king-post roof trusses with fishbone struts.
Forms group with Lund's Farmhouse approx. 5 metres west
(q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4442007551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584916

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)