This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
LITTLE ECCLESTON WITH MEAGLES LANE SD 43 NW LARBRECK 5/38 Barn on south side of lane c.150 metres east of Little Eccleston Hall - GV II
Small cruck-framed barn, date uncertain but probably C17. Wals partly hand made brick, partly modern brick replacement, but gable of east end cruck-framed with clamstaff and daub infill; corrugated iron roof and boarded eaves covering thatch. Rectangular 3-bay plan. Full-height wagon doorway to centre, plain doorway each side; slit breathers on all sides of 1st bay, diamond pattern breathers in west gable; rear of 3rd bay covered with corrugated iron sheet. Interior: 2 full cruck trusses, both with tie-beam and yoke, the 2nd also with curved dorsals held on pegs and a strut, but both also with vacant housings for tie-beams, spurs, and collars (suggesting possible domestic origin); trenched overlapped purlins with some straight wingbracing; original rafters carrying horizontal but irregular laths.
Listing NGR: SD4146539825
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1891 IOE Records taken by G M Smith; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr G M Smith. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Smith, G M
Rights Holder: Smith, G M
Thatch, Timber, Brick, Clay, Daub, Iron, Tudor Cruck Barn, Elizabethan Monument (By Form), Stuart Timber Framed Barn, Jacobean Timber Framed Building, Agriculture And Subsistence, Barn, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, House, Domestic, Dwelling
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