Description

LITTLE ECCLESTON WITH MEAGLES LANE
SD 43 NW LARBRECK

5/37 Little Eccleston Hall Farmyard
building
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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644256

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)