Description

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW ASMALL LANE
663-1/4/126 (North side)
10/12/92 Barn approx. 6m E of White Rails
Farmhouse

GV II

Barn. c.1700, altered. Mostly handmade red brick in English
garden wall bond (3+1), but the south side (to the road)
partly rebuilt in C20 brick; corrugated roof. Rectangular
5-bay plan. The south front has a blocked waggon doorway in
the centre, flanked by large C19 buttresses, the top of that
to the right partly covering the remains of a feature with a
basket-arched surround (a former window or a plaque, perhaps);
the wall to the right has blocked slit-breathers; that to the
left has been rebuilt. The north front has a rebuilt waggon
entrance in the centre (with metal sliding doors), a square
window and altered doorway to the left, and a cart doorway to
the right with cambered timber lintel. The west gable wall has
a flight of external steps to a loft doorway which is square
headed and flanked by small basket-arched windows. INTERIOR:
windbraced principal-rafter roof with raked struts, 2 pairs of
purlins; timber-framed partition wall with wattle-and-daub
infilling. Forms group with White Rails Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4050208849

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585110

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings