Great Eccleston has eight Grade II listed buildings, each forming part of the parish’s local heritage.
Explore their historical descriptions below, or follow the links to view the official records held by Historic England.
Grade II Listed Building
Dovecote
- Listed building name
- DOVECOTE
- Location
- Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 27/04/98
- Date last amended
- 27/04/98
- Legacy LBS number
- 469242
Original Listing Description
Dovecote. Late C18, with late C20 replacement of roof structure. Red brick, with tile rat course at mid- wall level, and a Welsh-slated pyramidal roof with a square ogee-roofed cupola.
Square plan, with doorway to east side and a window above, both with shallow segmental brick arches. Studded plank door, hung from straps set on pins attached to ashlar sandstone blocks set into doorway jambs. Blocked overlight to door head. At door head level, and extending around all elevations, a double course of tiles form a rat course'.
INTERIOR: Each wall contains 10 rows of nesting boxes, 9 boxes to each row, although internal alterations have damaged some areas. The lower part was latterly used to stall animals.
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Pinfold
- Listed building name
- PINFOLD, HIGH STREET (south side)
- Location
- High Street (south side), Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Date last amended
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185017
Original Listing Description
SD 44 SW GREAT ECCLESTON HIGH STREET (South Side)
5/5 Pinfold
GV II
Pound, probably C19th. Sandstone rubble. Roughly trapezoidal on plan, with entrance on north side and with walls about 2 metres high, some with rounded copings, some with triangular copings.
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Willow Cottage
- Listed building name
- WILLOW COTTAGE RESTAURANT, HIGH STREET (north side)
- Location
- High Street (north side), Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Date last amended
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185016
Original Listing Description
SD 44 SW GREAT ECCLESTON HIGH STREET (North Side)
5/4 Willow Cottage Restaurant
GV II
House, C17th. Rendered, with asbestos sheet roof over thatch. 1½ storeys. On each side of the door is a window with plain reveals. Above are 2 windows partly within the roof. At the left is a, modern bow window, with a door to its left. To the right of the bow window is a chimney with modern brick cap. Interior. Room entered from main door has 2 chamfered axial main joists and exposed common joists. Its left-hand wall is said to contain a cruck truss, exposed during alterations but now covered.
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Milestone, Raikes Road
- Listed building name
- MILESTONE, RAIKES ROAD
- Location
- Raikes Road, Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Date last amended
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185018
Original Listing Description
SD 44 SW GREAT ECCLESTON RAIKES ROAD
5/6 Milestone
GV II
Milestone, C19th. Sandstone. Triangular on plan, with sloping top. Left-hand face inscribed: "GARSTANG 6 1/4 MILES. LANCASTER 17 MILES". Right-hand face inscribed: "GT ECCLESTON 1/4 MILE. POULTON-LE-FYLDE 6 1/4 MILES. BLACKPOOL 10 MILES". Top inscribed: "GREAT ECCLESTON".
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Church of St Anne
- Listed building name
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE
- Location
- Copp, Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 17/04/67
- Date last amended
- 17/04/67
- Legacy LBS number
- 185015
Original Listing Description
SD 43 NW GREAT ECCLESTON COPP
7/3 Church of St. Anne 17-4-1967
GV II
Church, 1884-5, with C18th remains. Coursed sandstone with slate roof. Comprises a west tower, nave, lower chancel, and south porch. Tower, originally built 1841 and encased and raised during the rebuilding, of 3 stages with lancet bell openings and an embattled parapet carried on a corbel table. South nave wall has 4 bays to east of porch, with lancet windows. The chancel has one bay with paired lancets. The east window is of 3 stepped lancet lights under a round hood. Above the porch door, which has a chamfered surround with shouldered lintel, is a plaque inscribed 'S.A.1723'. This refers to original church on this site, parts of which are said to be retained within the present fabric. Interior has open timber roof with bolted king posts having curved braces to the principals, and with curved queen struts. The chancel roof has scissor-braced rafters. The west gallery has a front of raised panels and is carried on iron columns with foliated caps.
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Western House
- Listed building name
- WESTERN HOUSE
- Location
- The Square (southern side), Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Date last amended
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185019
Original Listing Description
SD 44 SW GREAT ECCLESTON THE SQUARE
5/7 Western house on southern side of The Square
GV II
House, possibly early C18th, altered. Rendered, with corrugated iron roof over thatch. Cross-wing plan. 2 storeys. Windows modern with plain reveals. Main front of 2 bays. On the ground floor the left-hand bay has a narrow window at the left of the door. Between bays on the ground floor is a 3rd window. The cross-wing, at the left, has a modern bay window on the ground floor and a window with segmental head above. A parallel wing further left is a later addition of no architectural interest. Chimneys on right-hand gable and on ridge of cross-wing at junction with main roof. Interior said to have exposed ceiling joists.
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Hodgkinson Farmhouse
- Listed building name
- HODGKINSON’S FARM c1700 (possibly earlier)
- Location
- Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185013
Original Listing Description
House, possibly c,1700. Rendered clay and brick with corrugated iron roof over thatch. Cross-wing plan, 1½ storeys. Windows modern with timber frames projecting slightly. On the north-east side the main range is of one bay, the upper window being a dormer. To the left is a C20th addition against the front of the wall. To the right is a single-storey porch. To the right is the cross-wing, which has a stair window at the left, a ground-floor window to the right, and a window to the upper storey under the gable. Chimneys to left of windows of main range and in centre of ridge of cross-wing. North-west wall of cross-wing, facing road, has 2 windows on ground floor. South-west wall of one bay, the upper window under the gable, with a narrow window to the right on the ground floor. The main range has 2 ground-floor windows, the left-hand one under a modern verandah. Right-hand return wall of cross-wing said to have doorway. Plan of house given in Watson, R.C., "Parlours with External Entrances", Vernacular Architecture Vol.6,1975, p.30. Owner says that he believes the cross-wing to be a later addition as it is of brick, and that framing for the original doorway was found above the right-hand window of the south-west wall, not in the position shown by Watson.
Listing NGR: SD4407539522
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Seed’s Farmhouse
- Listed building name
- SEEDS FARMHOUSE
- Location
- Great Eccleston, Wyre, Lancashire
- Grade
- II
- Date listed
- 03/10/84
- Legacy LBS number
- 185014
Historical Summary
Seed’s Farmhouse probably dates from the early 18th century. It has a sandstone ground floor with brickwork above, and a thatched roof covered with corrugated iron. The two-storey building has three bays and a three-unit lobby-entry layout.
Most of its windows have horizontal sliding sashes, while the entrance has a later timber porch and a chimney aligned with the doorway. The interior was not accessible when the building was surveyed.
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The historical listing descriptions have been preserved as originally supplied and may refer to features or conditions recorded at the time of survey.
Official heritage information is provided by Historic England (opens in a new tab). The additional Seed’s Farmhouse summary is based on its official list entry, available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (opens in a new tab).