Shippon at Meols Hall
SHIPPON AT MEOLS HALL, BOTANIC ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379561
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Shippon at Meols Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPPON AT MEOLS HALL, BOTANIC ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379561
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Shippon at Meols Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIPPON AT MEOLS HALL, BOTANIC ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPPON AT MEOLS HALL, BOTANIC ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD3649218270
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/2/303 (South side (off))
15/07/98 Shippon at Meols Hall
GV II
Shippon or cowshed. 1951. By Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, an
amateur architect, for himself. Brick with stone dressings and
quoins, stone slate roofs.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: symmetrical tripartite composition, with
2-storey centrepiece and four-bay wings terminating in
single-storey end pavilions.
Eastern elevation to farmyard has folding doors in stone
architrave in stone surrounds with fanlight and keystone.
Square sash windows with small panes in stone architraves to
first floor.
Wings have 3-bay square arcades with square piers complete
with small capitals, leading to single-storey end pavilions
with stable doors and toplights. Western elevation to park is
a symmetrical composition with small rectangular windows, and
a centrepiece mirroring that of farmyard elevation, save that
there are double doors under the fanlight and that neither has
a stone surround.
HISTORY: Meols Hall was the Hesketh family home until the C18,
when the then Roger Hesketh married Margaret Fleetwood,
heiress of Rossall, and the latter became the family home. It
was only in 1938 that it was reoccupied by the Heskeths, when
the amateur architect Roger Hesketh fulfilled a lifetime's
ambition. Hesketh and his brother Peter both studied at the
Architectural Association, and had travelled extensively
looking at architecture. While Peter Fleetwood Hesketh became
a noted architectural writer, his older brother enjoyed a
military and political career and it was only when he left the
House of Commons in 1959 that work on the house commenced. The
Shippon was a foretaste of what was to come, an entirely new
building designed for his herd of Jersey cows.
The Shippon is a remarkably accomplished essay in the
Palladian style, unique for its date. Hesketh detailed it with
simplicity and conviction and it forms a fine complement to
the listed house and farmbuildings around it.
(Robinson JM: The Latest Country Houses: London: 1951-:
180-2).
Listing NGR: SD3649218270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, J M, The Latest Country Houses, (1951), 180-182
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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