Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm

Dawpool Farm, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075379
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm
Statutory Address:: Dawpool Farm, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075379
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm
Statutory Address 1:: Dawpool Farm, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HR

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Dawpool Farm, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 24566 84134

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/07/2018

SJ 28 SW 4/307 Thurstaston STATION ROAD (North Side) Dawpool Farm Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm.

(Formerly listed as Cattle Sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm. STATION ROAD)

GV II Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed. c1865. For James Hegan. Coursed, rock-faced red sandstone, graduated Welsh slate roofs. Irregular range of one storey buildings set round yard to south of ' Former barn and granary at Dawpool Farm' (q.v.) and attached to the barn by a two storey link; the implement shed forms the north east side of the yard and beyond it projects a loose-box incorporating smithy workshop. Four bay loose box has port-slatted casements in ashlar surrounds having rounded sills and chamfered quoins and lintels; smithy in additional end bay has boarded door on left of four-pane window; rounded kneelers, ashlar gable copings, raised ridge with louvred side panels interspersed with glazed lights. Implement shed, adjoining at right angles, has four-bay opening divided by iron posts; enclosed end bay with boarded double doors; plain roof with ashlar gable copings.

Main cattle shed is of four bays with three square-headed doorways at north east end having boarded doors and overlights in chamfered, quoined surrounds; part-slatted casements in openings as before; raised ridge. The south west end of this building is linked by sturdy bull-pens to a row of individual pens with doorways as before under single roof with raised ridge. The two storey link to the barn has open-sided ground floor to east beneath ashlar oculus with sill and hood flanked by small casements. Opposite side of link has square-headed waggon entrance (on axis of main form drive).

These buildings are listed for group value as part of a planned farm complex of which the barn/granary, dated 1862, are the most impressive element. The cattle sheds apart, to be of same date apart from the loose box which has rubble walling of later character facing Station Road; the implement shed may also be of same later date.

Listing NGR: SJ2456684134

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 215660
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.