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Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Barkby. In general the buildings are in the parish of Barkby. You may need to check adjoining parishes or settlements.
Please note that the records describe the salient features of each property in order to aid identification: the records are not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.
Listing covers all parts of the property and its curtilage, ie all internal and external elements whether described or not.

Barkby Hall, Beeby Road - Grade II
Hall, c1810. Cement rendered over brick. 3 storeys, 8 bays with central ashlar porch with door flanked by sash windows with pilasters and entablature. Balustrade above with shield of Pochin arms in panel. Outer sash windows, cornice and blocking course with panelled emphasis to centre. One storey wing at end with canted bay window and parapet. South elevation similar, of 7 bays.
Inside most features are of simple Regency character, including dining room, drawing room and library chimney pieces, the latter inlaid with Blue John. The main staircase is in the style of Wyatt and on a particularly grand scale; a main flight rises from the centre of the hall and divides into 2 halves which return up along the side walls. Stone treads are ornate metal balustrading of trellis pattern with chain link swags beneath hand rail. 4-sided top light with semi-circular windows, domed ceiling.
Barkby Hall has been the property and seat of the Pochin family since 1604.

Barkby Grange Farmhouse, Beeby Road - Grade II*
Farmhouse, 1855. Polychrome brickwork with stone dressings, and Welsh slate roof. Flamboyant picturesque gothic style, 2 storeyed, square in plan with central light well, each facade different. Entrance front of 2 bays, with central doorway beneath gabled full height porch, corbelled out at 1st floor level. The doorway is a 4 centred arch in chamfered and carved architrave. Single 2-light store mullioned window with hoodmould above and datestone in the apex. Left hand bay has 3 mullioned lights with blue and yellow brick relieving arch over, and polychrome decoration in the tympanum it forms. 2 mullioned lancets in the right hand bay, 2 light windows above, and a gable over the left hand bay with patterning in the apex. West elevation has 2 coped gables with a tiny gablet between them, each containing an expressed chimney stack. 2 light windows in centre, single lights in left hand gable. East elevation is of 3 bays with a tall coped gable to left, and a lower one to the right. In the left hand gable a 3 light stone mullioned window to ground floor, 2 lights above, with polychrome patterning in gable apex. Central bay also has a mullioned window to each floor, as does right hand gable. Yellow brick quoins on angles, blue and yellow brick bands. Stone coped gables, ornate tall brick stacks

Farm Building at Barkby Grange, Beeby Road - Grade II
Range of farm buildings, later C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof. The buildings form 2 sides of a yard with a further range at right angles containing taller barn with loft above. This range has building to left with coped gable, and round arched door between 2 steeply arched windows. To its right, the taller building has central steeply arched door beneath coped gable containing an upper entry approached by external staircase. String course and paired upper windows with yellow brick arched heads. Yellow brick dentilled eaves cornice.
Adjoining this building is the gable end of the courtyard range: stable and barn, central door and outer windows to stable, double doors with outer diamond vents to barn. At right angles to this, a single storey range, buttressed and with various square headed lights beneath the eaves, renewed, to the left, and to the right, a segmentally arched opening and tiny triangular vents. Blue and yellow brick bands. Nogged eaves cornice.

25, Brookside (north side) - Grade II
House, mid C18, brick on cobble plinth with Swithland slate roof, which is a 19th Century heightening. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan, built along curve of road. Central doorway, a four panelled door in moulded wood architrave. Horizontal sliding sash windows to each side with cambered brick arched heads: 3 lights to left, 2 to right, 2 upper windows are each a single light, the other has three lights. Small fire window to lower left. Dentilled eaves cornice. C19 single bay to left with casement windows. Gable end stacks.

27, Brookside (north side) - Grade II
House, dated 1755. Brick with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan with off centre doorway in moulded wood architrave, and flanking 2 light casement windows with tail cambered brick heads. Above, a 3 light casement either side of a single light. Plain brick plinth and eaves cornice. Coped gables, the brick coping now capped by concrete. Gable end stacks. Dated in left hand gable on a slate with initials W.P.

2-6 and Barn, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Row of three houses, and incorporating between them, a large barn. Early C19, built as part of Pochin Estate. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Nos 2 and 4 are below the barn, 2 storeys, no. 2 a single unit plan with inner 6 panelled door , and 3 light casement with top opening lights. No. 4 is a 2 unit plan with central 6 panelled doorway and 3 light casements with top opening lights. Above it is the barn, with central double doors and two upper shuttered lights to right, small square vent to left. No. 6 beyond the barn, is another single unit cottage with inner door and 3 light casement windows with small panes. Dentilled eaves cornice throughout. Gable and axial stacks. Gables have blue brick copings. Stable range forms rear wing; brick with Swithland slate roof and coped gables.

Church of St Mary, Main Street (north side) - Grade I
Parish Church. Mainly late C13, with some conservation Victorian restoration work. Mainly ironstone but some use of granite in the C19 work. West tower and spire, nave with 2 aisles and clerestory, chancel. Tall tower of 4 stages, and 2nd is ashlar, and a different type of stone. Slight angle buttresses. West doorway with paired shafts and hood mould. Single light with shafts in second stage, paired traceried many shafted lights with quatrefoils to bell chamber in top stage. Parapet frieze with grotesque masks etc. Tall broach spire (C14) with paired foiled lucarnes and 2 quatrefoil frieze bands. South aisle is a C19 restoration, renewing existing features, and built of granite rubble with limestone sill course and window tracery. The tracery of the 3 principal windows, and the one above the south doorway, represent a fine collection of decorated tracery forms. Frieze with geometric masks at eaves level. South door in coped gabled porch, the archway a continuous moulded shaft, no capitals. Aisle is wide and has a pitched roof with coped gables. Clerestory is ironstone rubble with some white ashlar work, and with 3 light windows. Chancel is earlier in the C13 than the rest of the fabric, and is built of small ironstone rubble. North and south sides are identically arranged, with small shuttered low side window to west, then paired lancets, a small doorway, and a Y traceried window. East window also has Y-tracery, and is rather narrow. Victorian granite vestry to north. Moulded stone eaves cornice, and heightening in brick. Angle buttresses to the south east, with Victorian pinnacle. North aisle is buttressed ironstone rubble or cobble stone. Its east window has five foiled lancets and a segment of circle cutting them, in a squared head with stilted hoodmould. Was this the original design, or has the window been subsequently cut through? There is some evidence that the roof pitch of the aisle may have been changed. Of the north windows, each is of a different and ornate decorated design, the easternmost for instance, has three foiled lancets with 2 quatrefoiled squares above. Sill course forms hoodmould to north doorway. Inside, the church gives the impression of great space; both the aisles and the chancel are rather wide, and the structure is also high. Nave of 4 bays, a late C13 arcade of triple chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Roof is perhaps C15 - tie beams with tracery panels above, low pitched. C18 gallery to west on slim wooden columns and with elegant cantilevered staircase. It contains a gothic organ case of 1899and over it is a narrow musicians gallery. Wide perpendicular chancel arch, forming a shallow curve, with traces of painted decoration on the mouldings. 2 light traceried windows above the chancel arch.
Various C18 and early C19 memorials to members of the Pochin family in the north aisle. One, to Charlotte Pochin, d 1732 is by Rysbrack. Hatchments also in north aisle. Diminutive font, possibly C18. An octagonal basin on an octagonal shaft; very elegantly moulded and proportioned. Old working clock mechanism in south aisle, removed there from the tower.

Churchyard, Gateway to Hall and Wall, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Length of wall with gateway to hall. Gateway is dated 1536. The wall is probably C18 or C19 - cobble with ashlar coping. The gateway is worn ashlar, a narrow round arched opening with keystone carrying the date, beneath a shallow segmental pediment supported on plain squared pilasters.

The Forge, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Forge and other outbuildings. Mid C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof to forge, Swithland slate to the rest of the range, which also has a cobble plinth. A long single storeyed range, the forge to the left has a 3 light window with cambered head, and double doors. Coped left hand gable with stack. Roof of long range slightly lower, and only a single doorway with timber lintel in the front elevation.
Forms an important part of a group, and architecturally is in a style characteristic of the Pochin Estate.

10, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably mid C18. Brick on cobble plinth, with Swithland slate roof, 2 storeys, 2 unit plan. Doorway with overlight slightly off centre, and flanking 12 light sash windows with thick wood cases, and cambered gauged brick heads. 2 upper sash windows also, and 2 others in gable wall. Moulded brick eaves cornice, brick sill band. Gable end stacks.

12, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, early C18. Brick on cobble plinth, with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan, with one 16 light sash window, with cambered gauged brick head to left of doorway, which has an overlight and a moulded wood architrave. Right of the door, a wide 3 light window with tiny wood canopy on brackets over it. Upper windows are 16 light sashes. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Sill band. Cobble plinth stops short of left hand gable, where there is also a built out stack. Stack on right hand gable, and another axially placed, but very close to it.

16, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roof, 2 storeys, 3 bays with central doorway slightly recessed and flanking 16 light sash windows with tall gauged brick arched heads. Upper windows are 12 light sashes. Sill band, plain brick eaves cornice. Side elevation to west wing has central door in lattice work porch, and 3 light horizontal sliding sash windows to each floor to left, and to right blind window recesses. Gable end stacks.

K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.

22 The White House Farm, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Stuccoed brickwork with Welsh slate roof. A tall 2 storeys, and 3 bays. Doorway slightly right of centre, a 6 panelled door with radiating fanlight in wood architrave and bracketed canopy. Either side of the door, a 16 light sash window with broad moulded architraves and above it, a round arched sash window is flanked by 2 other 16 light sashes. Plinth, moulded eaves cornice. Wing extends to rear right with plain sash windows and a lower brick wing beyond contains 2 renewed ground floor windows and an upper 2 light casement, and has a dentilled eaves cornice. Gable end stacks.

Merton Farmhouse, Main Street (north side) - Delisted 11 Apr 95
House, largely early C18, though with traces of an earlier core. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. Main range and cross wing to west. Main range of 3 units, one bay left of door has a 3 light casement to ground floor and a 2 light horizontally sliding sash above. 6 panelled door with overlight and gauged brick head. Right of the door, 3 wood mullioned and transomed windows with upper opening lights on each floor. Over the door, a possible blocked opening or discontinuity of build is indicated by 2 straight joints. Left of them, a timber post is visible at first floor level. Plinth, ornately moulded eaves cornice. The projecting wing seems a later build externally, and its gable apex is later still. In the gable wall two 3 light horizontal sliding sash windows, the upper with a cambered head. Gable and axial stacks.

32, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably mid C18. Brick with plain tile roof that seems to be an early C20 feature, the rafters projecting decoratively. Gable on to street. 2 storeys, 3 unit plan with one bay to left of doorway, and 2 windows right of it. All openings on ground floor have steeply cambered brick heads, and the windows are 3 light horizontally sliding sashes. Upper windows are similar. One gabled dormer over left hand bay. Sill band and plinth. Stack on right hand gable, and an axial stack behind the entry. Wing behind left hand bay is built on a granite plinth on which a moulded brick band rises over a blocked cellar opening. Steeply cambered heads to two 3 light horizontally sliding sashes in wing, and single lights in gable of main range. Sill band. Brick stack.

Barn rear of 32, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Barn, early C19. Brick on granite plinth and with Welsh slate roof, heightened in later C19. Gable on to street, with small ventilation holes. Central double doors in principal elevations, and diamond patterned vents to either side of them. In the east wall, a further door and window with cambered heads, possibly to former stable. Included for group value.

13-19, Main Street - Grade II
Row of 4 cottages, early C19. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, each cottage a single unit: Nos. 15 and 17 are entered from the rear. Windows are 3 light horizontally sliding sashes, and all openings, including doorways to nos. 13 and 19 and the archway through to the rear, have cambered brick arched heads. Dentilled eaves cornice. Axial stacks.

21, Main Street - Grade II
House. Largely early C19. Formerly two dwellings. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 unit plan with additional blocked doorway now a window to right of elevation. 2 renewed 3 light horizontally sliding sash windows to left, and doorway, all with flat timber lintels. 3 light horizontally sliding sash to right of door and the inserted window, both have cambered brick heads. Two upper 3 light horizontally sliding sashes, that to right with cambered brick head. Gable end and axial stacks. Cobble plinth and evidence of refronting in gable wall, where some blocked vents suggest that the building may have formerly been a barn.

The Pochin School, School Lane (east side) - Grade II
School, early C19. Building in two parts, but all brick with Welsh slate roof. Right hand section is two storeyed, with doorway to left, a 4 panelled door in moulded wood architrave, and two 3 light casement with cambered heads to right. Upper windows also 3 light casements. Dentilled eaves cornice, axial stack. Right hand section is the school room proper, and has 5 tall wood mullioned and transomed windows with cambered heads between outer doorways. Brick plinth, dentilled eaves cornice. Gables are coped with blue brick.

6-10, School Lane (east side) - Grade II
Row of 3 cottages, late C18 or early C19, but not a uniform terrace. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys. No. 6 has doorway to left then a blocked door and a 2 light horizontally sliding sash window to right, all with cambered brick heads. Upper windows are also 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. No. 8 is slightly larger with doorway and another blocked door between outer 3 light horizontal sliding sashes. Similarly No. 10 has a doorway between 3 light windows and a further blocked door to right. The detailing throughout is the same: horizontal sliding sashes, cambered heads to lower openings and dentilled eaves cornice. Gable end stack.

12-16, School Lane (east side) - Grade II
Row of 3 cottages, late C18 or early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roof. Similar to nos. 6-10, but probably slightly earlier. 2 storeys. Nos. 12 and 14 are each of 2 units, and built on a cobble plinth, with central doorways, that to no. 14 is moulded architrave, and outer horizontally sliding sashes with top opening lights. No. 16 is a single unit plan. All lower openings have cambered brick heads and are horizontally sliding sashes with top opening lights. Dentilled eaves cornice. Gable stacks. No. 14 has 2 insurance signs, for Union and Norwich companies/

6, Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19. Painted brick with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan with doorway off centre in wood case. Windows are 3 light horizontally sliding sashes and all lower openings have cambered brick heads. Dentilled eaves cornice. Gable end stack. Set back from road.

8-14, Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
Row of 4 cottages, early C19 (No. 10 apparently dated 1802). Gable onto street. Brick with Swithland slate roofs. 8-12 are of 3 storeys, each cottage a single unit with doorway and 2 or 3 light horizontally sliding sashes to each floor, all with cambered heads. No 10 has a longer light to the top floor, suggesting a workshop within. Large brick stacks. No. 14 adjoins, and is a 2 storey cottage, possibly rather later. Single unit plan, with doorway in wood architrave and a single 3 light horizontally sliding sash window, with cambered head. The group are apparently frame work knitters cottages.

The Dower House No. 2A, Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
House, originally one with the neighbouring Old Vicarage. This part probably late C17 but with facade of c1760. Brick with stone quoins, and a low pitched hipped roof to front gables. Swithland slate to main range behind. 3 storeys, two bays. To the left, a bay beneath a shaped Dutch gable with stags head motif, and containing 2 storey canted bay window with stone mullions, and glazing bars with margin lights. Above it a triple light sash window with margin lights. Stone sill and eaves bands. The right hand bay has a hipped Swithland slate roof, ground floor doorway with arched head, and above, a wood mullioned and transomed window with stone architrave to each floor.
Inside, various spine beams and a chamfered cross beam indicate the earlier part of the building. Good plaster cornice to principal room of 1760 work.

The Old Vicarage No. 2, Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
House, originally one with neighbouring Dower House. Partially C17 extended c1760-1770. Brick with low pitched Swithland slate roof. The original part is of 3 storeys, 2 bays with shaped Dutch end gable, central doorway in bracketed porch flanked by 2 light horizontally sliding casements with cambered heads. Right of it, 1760 extension of less height, with canted bay window with castellated parapet and stone architraves to sash window lights. Above it, a high wood mullioned and transomed window with flat arched brick head. Shaped Dutch end gable with stone kneeles beneath which is a broad 16 light sash window with gauged brick head on each floor, and in the apex, the date on a slate with initials W.P.

Barn in Old Vicarage Grounds, Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
Barn, dated 1768. Brick on cobble plinth with Swithland slate roof. Gable on to street. 1 narrow door and a blocked window in the north wall, with cambered brick heads. In the gable wall, a 2 light horizontally sliding sash to ground floor, and blocked window with cambered brick head above. In the apex the date on a slate, with initials W.P.

22-30, School Lane (east side) - Grade II
Row of 5 cottages, early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roofs. 2 storeys. Each cottage is a single unit plan with 6 panelled door and a 3 light horizontally sliding sash to each floor. All openings have cambered heads. Gable end stacks.

4 (Rose Cottage), Vicarage Lane (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, dated 1766. Brick with plinth and Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan with central doorway in bracketed architrave. Outer windows have cambered brick arched heads, that to left a 3 light horizontally sliding sash, and to the right, renewed. Upper windows also renewed. Plain brick sill band, dentilled eaves cornice. Gable end stacks.

24, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, largely early C18, though with traces of an earlier core. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. Main range and cross wing to west. Main range of 3 units, one bay left of door has a 3-light casement to ground floor and a 2-light horizontally sliding sash above. 6-panelled door with overlight and gauged brick head. Right of the door, 3 wood mullioned and transomed windows with upper opening lights on each floor. Over the door, a possible blocked opening or discontinuity of build is indicated by 2 straight joints. Left of them, a timber post is visible at first floor level. Plinth, ornately moulded eaves cornice. The projecting wing seems a later build externally, and its gable apex is later still. In the gable wall 2 3-light horizontally sliding sash windows, the upper with a cambered head. Gable and axial stacks.

Grange Farm Cottages, Beeby Road, Barkby – Locally Listed
Pair of C19 Cottages. Red and yellow patterned brick with feature yellow and blue brick string course at 1st floor level. Stone quoins and yellow brick segmental arched heads to window and door openings. Swithland slate pitched roof with stone copings to upstanding gables. 2 gable stacks. 2 storeys.

Syston Grange, Queniborough Road, Barkby – Locally Listed
Farmhouse and Barns. Farmhouse, C19. Plain Gothic Revival styling. Barns, arranged round yard, perhaps originally C18 but with C19/20 alterations and additions. Vernacular styling. Generally, mellow red brick. Slate pitched roofs. Farmhouse ‘L’ shaped on plan with pitched dormers and deep gables. Ridge and eaves stacks with corbelled heads. Some barns possibly converted to residential accommodation

New York Farm, Ridgemere Lane, Barkby – Locally Listed
Much altered 3 storey Georgian Farmhouse with C19 two storey additions. C18 Vernacular barns containing farmyard at rear (SE). Main building, 2 bays with pitched roof and gable stacks facing NW. 2 storey ‘lean to’ addition on SW gable. Transverse 2 storey hipped roof extension attached to NE gable on NW/SW axis completing 'L' shaped plan. Generally, red brick with pitched slate roof. Barns re-roofed with C20 profiled clay/concrete tiles. Segmental brick arched heads to openings (Georgian farmhouse). Painted stone lintols to C19 transverse extension

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