Barton is a civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. It contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Barton and surrounding countryside. Running through it is the Lancaster Canal, and a bridge crossing it and an aqueduct are listed. The other listed buildings include farm buildings, milestones, a church, and a cross.
Grade | Criteria |
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II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest |
II | Buildings of national importance and special interest |
Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes | Grade |
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Wing of former Barton Old Hall 53.8379°N -2.7149°W | The wing of a former manor house, later used for agricultural purposes. It is timber-framed with brick cladding and a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with six bays and two storeys. In the north wall is a 32-light mullioned and transomed window. | |||
Barn, Barton Old Hall 53.8379°N -2.7145°W | The barn is cruck-framed, with modern brick walls and a corrugated sheet roof. It has a rectangular plan, with six bays and two storeys. In the south gable are the arms of the Barton and Shuttleworth families in relief. | |||
Barn, Fisher's Farm 53.8465°N -2.7245°W | The barn is cruck-framed, clad in brick, and has a corrugated sheet roof. It has four bays with lean-to extensions, and contains a wagon entrance doorways and a round pitching hole. Inside are three full cruck trusses. | |||
Raby's Old Farmhouse 53.8508°N -2.7305°W | This originated as a farmhouse, and was later altered and used for other purposes. It is cruck framed, built in brick with some boulder stone, and has a corrugated iron roof. There are storeys and three bays, and the building contains two segmental-headed doorways, two segmental-headed casement windows, and a dormer with a sliding sash window. | |||
Milestone 53.8247°N -2.7359°W | The milestone is in stone, it is about high, and has a triangular plan with convex sides and a rounded top. The sides have panels with the distances in miles to Garstang and to Preston. | |||
Milestone 53.8391°N -2.7399°W | The milestone is in stone, it is about high, and has a triangular plan with convex sides and a rounded top. The sides have panels with the distances in miles to Garstang and to Preston. | |||
Hollowforth Aqueduct (Bridge No. 38) 53.8205°N -2.7507°W | The aqueduct carries the Lancaster Canal over New Mill Brook. It is in sandstone, and consists of three elliptical pipes about high and wide. They have rusticated voussoirs, and flat coping running down on curved outer abutments. | |||
Hepgreave Bridge (No.39) 53.8233°N -2.7513°W | The bridge carries Station Lane over the Lancaster Canal. It is in sandstone, and consists of a single elliptical arch with triple keystoness, bands, parapets with rounded coping, and pilastered ends. | |||
St Lawrence's Church 53.8289°N -2.736°W | 1895–96 | The church, designed by R. Knill Freeman in Decorated style is in yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof with red ridge tiles. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, aisles, a chancel with a south chapel, and a northwest steeple. The steeple has a two-stage tower with angle buttresses rising to corner pinnacles, a moulded south doorway, lancet windows, and octagonal bell stage, and a spire with lucarnes. | ||
Barton Cross 53.8302°N -2.708°W | 1901 | This is in stone, and consists of a simple cross on a pedestal consisting of a tapered block on a cubic block. These stand on a base of large slabs about square, which may date from the late medieval era. There is an inscription on the pedestal. | ||