Description

SOUTHPORT

SD31NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/2/250 (South side (off))
15/11/72 Barn on west side of farmyard to
south-west of Meols Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCHTOWN
Farm buildings to South West of
Meols Hall)

GV II

Barn, now store or garage. Probably later C17; altered.
Hand-made red brick in irregular English garden wall bond,
with sandstone plinth, roof of stone slates with some Welsh
slate. Rectangular plan on north-south axis.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays, the north end partitioned and
lofted; with a continuous outshut to the east front. 4:4
windows divided by a wagon entrance off-set slightly left; a
2-course plinth of large dressed stone blocks, and a brick
corbel table over the ground floor.
The wagon entrance has an integral porch under a roof raised
slightly above the main range, with a timber lintel and reused
timber purlins.
The side ranges each have a central doorway flanked by a pair
of square 6-pane windows at ground floor, various blocked
slit-breathers at this level, and 4 oblong 6-pane windows
under the eaves.
The north gable wall has a flight of stone steps to a loft in
the outshut (the loft doorway interrupting a band like that at
the front), a doorway at ground floor flanked by 3-light
brick-mullioned windows, a 5-light brick-mullioned window
above, and a blocked or blind 3-light window with similar
mullions in the gable above; all these windows have chamfered
mullions and wooden lintels under saw-tooth bands.
The west front has slit-breathers on 3 levels, an altered
wagon doorway and 3 windows to the north portion only.
INTERIOR: 5 king post trusses, all with reused principals.
Forms group with Gate piers and wall of courtyard (qv), Barn
on east side (qv), Cart shed on south side (qv) and Meols Hall
to east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3652118274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659806

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)