Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581524

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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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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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas