Ormskirk is a town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. The town, including the neighbouring village of Westhead and surrounding countryside, contains 68 buildings recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. One is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The oldest listed buildings are a church and the remains of a priory. Many of the later listed buildings are houses and associated structures, and farmhouses and farm buildings. Other listed buildings include public houses, churches and associated structures, public buildings, buildings associated with the railway, a water tower, a drinking fountain, a water pumping house, a clock tower, a statue, war memorials, and a telephone kiosk.
Numerous alterations and additions were made during the following centuries, including the steeple towards the end of the 14th century, and the tower in the middle of the 16th century. In about 1739 the nave and aisles were rebuilt in Classical style, and in 1877–91 Paley and Austin undertook a considerable restoration in Gothic Revival style. The church is built in sandstone with stone-slate roofs. It consists of a nave with a west tower, a north aisle, a south aisle with a southwest steeple and the Scarisbrick chapel at the east end, and a chancel with a north vestry and the Derby chapel to the south. The tower is in three stages with a west doorway, and an embattledparapet with centre and corner pinnacles. The steeple has a tower with a square first stage, broaching to an octagonal stage that is surmounted by an octagonal spire.[2][3]
Originally a manor house, it was altered in 1670 and restored in the 20th century. Originally timber-framed, it is now in brick on a sandstoneplinth. with composition tile roofs. The house has an L-shaped plan, with two four-bay wings at right angles. There are two storeys, and attics in the front range, which also has a plain doorway and a datestone. In the rear wing is a round-headed doorway. Inside the house is exposed timber-framing, and in the rear wing is a Tudor arched fireplace on each floor.[7][8]
The house is roughcast on brick with a slate roof, and has three storeys and three bays. The doorway is round-headed, and the windows are irregularly-spaced sashes. At the rear of the house is a bow window.[7][9]
A building of unknown origin, altered in the early 19th century, and later converted into a restaurant. It is in sandstone with quoins and a stone-slate roof. The building has a cruciform plan with three north-south bays and two outshuts to the sides, and is in two storeys. Some of the windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed. There is a doorway with a segmental head, and a first-floor doorway approached by steps.[10]
The farmhouse was enlarged in the 18th century, and later the attached barn was converted for domestic use. The building is in brick on a sandstoneplinth, and has a roof of composition tiles. There are two storeys and three bays, with a parallel range and an outshut at the rear. The doorway has a plain surround and a rectangular lintel, and the windows are casements. Inside the house is an inglenook and a bressumer.[11][12]
The farm building was extended in the 18th century and subsequently altered. The original part is in sandstone with quoins, the extension is in brick, and the roof is of stone-slate. The building has four bays and two storeys. Openings include wagon entrances, shippon doorways (some with Tudor arched heads and large monolithiclintels}, ventilation slits (some blocked), and mullioned windows.[13]
A sandstone cottage, partly rendered, with quoins and a slate roof. It has two storeys and a symmetrical two-bay front. The central doorway has an unusual surround of raised roll moulding, and above it is a datestone with a similar surround. The windows are casements, and those in the ground floor have massive lintels.[7][14]
The farmhouse was altered in the late 18th century. It is in brick with a stone-slate roof, and has two storeys and three bays with later additions to the rear. On the front is a doorway with a plain surround and a 20th-century glazed porch, and casement windows with raised sills and rectangular lintels.[15]
The barn is in brick, and has been altered. On the front are buttresses, a wagon entrance, windows, and blocked ventilation slits. The west gable wall has external steps leading to a first-floor loft window.[b][16]
Originally a house, later a public house, it is in brown brick with yellow brick dressings and a slate roof, and has three storeys. The doorway has a 20th-century wooden doorcase with flutedpilasters and a pediment. Some windows have been blocked, others are sashes. There is a two-storey rear extension with a stone-slate roof.[17]
The public house is in brick, partly on a stone plinth, with some sandstone dressings and a stone-slate roof. It has two storeys and a T-shaped plan, with a range facing the road and a wing at the left. Between the windows in the main range are buttresses, and in the angle between the main range and the wing is a porch. The windows are sashes. At the rear are extensions linking with a taller two-storey range.[18][19]
A brick house on a stone plinth with a composition tile roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with a rear wing. On the front is a two-storey gabled porch with a square-headed doorway and a casement window above. The other windows on the front are horizontal sliding sashes. To the right is a garden wall, mainly in brick with some sandstone, and with rounded coping.[20]
Possibly originally a farmhouse, and later divided into two dwellings, the building is in roughcast brick with a slate roof. It has two storeys and extensions at the rear. The windows are sashes, those on the upper floor being horizontal sliding sashes. Also in the upper floor is a datestone. At the rear is a casement window with the remains of a former mullioned window.[21]
A shop with offices above in brick with a slate roof, it has three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a shop front with a wagon entry on the right. In the upper floors are sash windows, and at the rear are later extensions.[22]
A pair of shops with living accommodation above, in brick, partly rendered and with a slate roof. They are in a U-shaped plan with a wagon entry between the shops. There are two storeys with attics, and three bays, with shop fronts on the ground floor. No. 29 has two casement windows in the first floor and one in the attic, with raised sills and wedge lintels, and No. 31 has one altered window in each floor.[18][23]
Originally possibly a folly or a hunting lodge. The building is in brick with rendered dressings and a stone-slate roof, and is in Gothick style. It has a rectangular plan with symmetrical sides of three bays, and has embattledgableparapets. There is a doorway in the southwest front flanked by oculi, and all the sides are decorated with motifs that include bands, some of which are saw-tooth, blank arches, blind oculi, and tracery in differing styles.[7][24] The lodge was converted for domestic use around 2010 and was featured on the Channel 4 series The Restoration Man.[25]
Originally a house, later used as an office, it is in brick on a renderedplinth, with sandstone dressings and a hipped roof, and is in Georgian style. There is a rectangular plan, with a semicircular stair turret and extensions to the rear. The house has three storeys with cellars and attics, and a symmetrical front of five bays, the central three bays projecting slightly forward under a pediment. There is a first-floor band, a mouldedcornice and a blocking course. The central round-headed doorway has an Ionic doorcase with engaged columns, a lintel above which is an inscribed plaque, a semicircular fanlight, and an open pediment. In the middle floor is an arcade of blind round-headed arches. Most of the windows are sashes.[18][27]
Originally a farmhouse, the house is in brick with sandstone dressings and a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of two bays. The central doorway has a pedimentedarchitrave with flat pilasters and a pulvinated frieze. The windows have wedge lintels with pseudo-voussoirs. The glazing has been altered, and there are extensive additions at the rear.[28]
The farmhouse is in brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It is in two storeys with a symmetrical three-bay front. In the centre is a two-storey porch with a round-headed doorway. The windows are casements with raised sills and wedge lintels. At the rear are sliding sash windows.[29]
The farmhouse and attached farm are in brick. The house has a slate roof, it is in two storeys, and has two bays with an extension to the rear. It has a central lean-to porch and casement windows with segmental heads; the windows in the rear extension are sliding sashes. The barn has a roof of stone-slate, is in two bays, and its former wagon entrance has been removed.[30]
The house is in roughcast on brick, and has a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys with an attic, and a symmetrical front of two bays. The central doorway has a segmental head, and the windows, also with segmental heads, all contain 20th-century casements. In the middle of the upper floor is a datestone. There is a small attic window in the right gable wall.[31]
A brick barn with a stone-slate roof in three bays. In the centre is a large wagon entrance with a semi-elliptical head, and in the walls are ventilation slits in diamond patterns. In the right return is a blocked doorway with a segmental head, and at the rear is a square-headed wagon doorway.[32]
The house is in brick with two storeys, and has a rectangular plan with an angled rear wing at the right end. The doorway has a pedimented surround. The doorways are top-hung casements imitating sashes. They all have raised sills, and the windows in the ground floor also have wedge lintels. At the rear is a stair window.[33]
Originally the Town Hall, later used as a shop with offices. It is roughcast on brick, and has a tile roof, in three storeys and with two bays. The building is at right angles to the road, and has a rectangular plan. In the ground floor is a shop front, and above are two windows in each floor with altered glazing. At the top is a pedimentedgable containing a large painted coat of arms.[18][34]
Originally a farmhouse, the house is in brick, and has a rectangular plan with a small service wing to the rear. There are two storeys with attics and cellars, and three bays. The doorway is round-headed, and has a pediment, an architrave with pilasters and rosettes in the entablature, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes. The rear wing has one storey with a porch in the angle. Inside the house is a stone spiral staircase running from the cellar to the upper floor.[35]
A brick shop with sandstone dressings, a slate roof, and red ridge tiles. There are three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a shop front and a wagon entrance with a segmental head and stone jambs and a cobbled pathway. The windows in the upper storeys are sashes, those in the middle floor having wedge lintels. At the rear is an extension with loading doors.[36]
A brick house with sandstone dressings and a composition tile roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of two bays, and the windows are sashes. Above the windows and the central doorway are wedge lintels.[37]
Originally a row of three cottages, later converted into two dwellings. They are in brick with sandstone dressings and a composition tile roof, and have two storeys. In the ground floor are three doorways with plain surrounds and three horizontal sliding sash windows, all with wedge lintels. The upper floor has a fixed window above each doorway and a horizontal sliding sash window above each ground floor window. All the windows have raised sills.[38]
Originally a handloom weaving workshop, and later used for other purposes, the building is in brick with a composition tile roof. There are two storeys and nine bays. In the ground floor are an altered window and doorway, and six windows with segmental heads. In the upper floor are nine horizontal sliding sash windows.[7][39]
The former barn has been incorporated into the public house. It is in brick and has two storeys. There are opposing wagon entrances and a doorway with a loading door above.[40]
A row of 13 brick cottages, some rendered, some pebbledashed, with slate roofs. They have two storeys and each cottage has one bay. The row contains a through-lobby and a wagon entrance. Some doorways are round-headed, others have flat heads; some cottages have retained their sash windows, and others have been altered.[41]
Built as The Dispensary, it has since been used for other purposes. It has a sandstone front, with brick at the sides and rear, and a stone-slate roof with a skylight. The building is in Greek Revival style, and is set back from the road, with a forecourt containing a flight of steps. The building has one storey and three bays, the central bay being occupied by a portico with four Doric columns, corner pilasters, an entablature with a cornice, and a pediment. The doorway has a mouldedarchitrave and a fanlight. Flanking the portico are sash windows.[43][44]
A house, later used as a shop, in brick with a sandstoneplinth and dressings, and with a concrete tile roof. It has three storeys and two bays, and a short extension at the rear. The ground floor has been remodelled, and in the upper floors there are sash windows, those in the middle floor with wedge lintels. At the rear are steps up to the top floor, and the windows have been altered.[45]
Originally a house and attached chapel, later used for other purposes, they are in brick with sandstone dressings and composition tile roofs. The former house has three storeys and cellars and a symmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway is round-headed and has an open pediment, pilasters, an entablature including urns, and a fanlight. Most of the windows are sashes. The former chapel is in a single storey, with a central round-headed doorway that has an architrave with a keystone and a fanlight. It is flanked by sash windows with wedge lintels.[46]
A pair of brick cottages with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and with three storeys. No. 52 is painted and No. 54 is rendered. The doorways are in the outer corners, and to the left of No. 54 is a round-headed lobby entrance. Each cottage has one window on each floor. The windows of No. 52 have altered glazing, and those of No. 54 are sashes.[47]
A row of six brick cottages with a slate roof, No. 66 being canted forwards. They have two storeys, and each cottage has one bay. There is a lobby entrance between Nos. 64 and 66. The windows are sashes with flat-arched heads, apart from those of No. 66, which has wedge lintels.[48]
A row of six brick houses with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. They have two storeys and each house has one bay. The doorways are paired and have wedge lintels, and the windows are sashes.[49]
The bridge was built for the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, and carries Moor Street over the railway. The bridge and cutting walls are in sandstone. The walls are about 130 metres (430 ft) long, and are ramped up to meet the bridge, which has a single stilted segmental arch. The walls and bridge have a moulded band, and parapets with rounded coping.[52]
A rebuild of an earlier house, it is in roughcast brick with a slate roof. There are three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a shop front. The middle floor contains three windows with quoins, two of which are sashes, and the other has been altered. The top floor has two windows, one a sash window and the other a casement.[53]
Originally a hotel, later used as a restaurant, it is in brick with sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. It stands on a corner site, and has three storeys and cellars, with four bays on Derby Street, five bays on Railway Road, and a canted bay on the corner. The doorway on Derby Street has a round head, an architrave of flutedDoric semi-columns with an entablature, and a fanlight. On the Railway Road front is a doorway with pilasters and a fanlight. Most of the windows are sashes, and others are blind.[54]
A brick house with some sandstone dressings and a hipped roof. It has two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a main range and a projecting wing to the left. In the main range is a round-headed doorway with a keystone, and a recessed porch with a moulded wooden doorcase. Above the doorway is a small round-headed window. To the right of the doorway is a three-light window, and to the left, in the wing, is a cantedbay window. In the upper floor are top-hung casement windows imitating sashes, and the wing has a pedimentedgable. The garden wall is in sandstone with rounded coping, and is about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high.[55]
An office in brick with sandstone dressings, rusticatedquoins, and a hipped roof, in Italianate style. It has a single storey and a symmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway has banded columns, an entablature, and a cornice. It is flanked by round-headed windows that have architraves with keystones. There are two similar windows in the right return with a doorway between them.[7][56]
The former vicarage to St James' Church is in sandstone with a slate roof. There are two storeys with attics and four bays, the left bay is gabled, and on the right is a gabled wing. In the wing is a porch with a segmental-pointed arched doorway. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed. In the right return is a single-storey rectangular bay window.[11][61]
The drinking fountain is built into the parapet of a railway bridge. It is in sandstone and contains a pink semicircular marble bowl. Behind the bowl is a dated panel and above this is an inscribed plaque and a pitched upstand.[63]
The building is in sandstone, and has a rectangular plan with later extensions at the rear. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of six bays. The second and fifth bays project forward under a shallow pediment and contain doorway (one of which has been converted into a window). The doorcases have banded columns and pilasters, and each has an entablature with a cornice and a frieze. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with round heads, and those in the upper floor with mouldedarchitraves.[7][64]
The building on the east side of the station includes the booking hall and offices. It is in brick with a slate roof, and is in Italianate style. The building has a rectangular plan and is in one storey and 15 bays. The central two bays of the entrance front project forward and have a gabledparapet. The front has an arcade of blank arches and contains doorways and sash windows. The platform front also has doorways and sash windows, and a cantedbay window. There is a seven-bay canopy carried on 15 cast iron columns that carry brackets containing a circular ornament in the spandrels.[18][65]
A public house and attached shop in brick with a slate roof. There are two storeys, and each part has two bays. The shop, on the left, has a three-light shop window and a doorway, both with pilasters, and another door to the right. In the upper floor are a sash window and a window with altered glazing, both with raised sills and wedge lintels. The hotel has a symmetrical front, with a central pedimented doorway flanked by windows with altered glazing. In the upper floor are two sash windows, with a large signboard between them.[66]
The water pumping house is in red brick with sandstone dressings and slate roofs, and is in Jacobean style. It has a T-shaped plan with a main range and a double-pile range on the east side. The main range has a basement and a single tall storey. The entrance front has corner pilasters with quoins, a mouldedcornice, a large shaped gable, and a square-headed doorway that has an architrave with an arcadedentablature containing an inscribed shield. There are more shaped gables along the sides, and the windows have eight lights and are mullioned and transomed. The other range has one storey, a corbel table, a cornice, shaped gables, and large round-headed archways.[67]
The lodge is in brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It is in Elizabethan style, with 2+1⁄2 storeys, and has a T-shaped plan consisting of a main two-bay range, a cross wing to the right, and a single-bay extension to the left. In the angle is a single-story gabled porch with a round-headed doorway. To the left is a mullioned window with a half-dormer above. In the cross wing is a cantedbay window.[68]
The fountain is in Victoria Park, and is in cast iron. It has a moulded base, and a stem of four engaged columns carrying a bowl with floral decoration. Four curved stems rise from the rim of the bowl to form a canopy surmounted by a decorated finial.[69]
The tower is in yellow sandstone with dressings of red sandstone, it is in Gothic style, and is about 3 metres (9.8 ft) square. It has a chamferedplinth, and a base containing an arched doorway on the north side and blank arches on the other sides. The eastern arch contains an inscribed plaque, and the southern arch the semicircular bowl of a former drinking fountain. On the base is a tall tower with lancets, and at the top are clock faces, an embattledparapet, an arcadedbelfry, and a two-stage pinnacle.[18][70]
A Methodist church designed by Peter Balmer, it is in yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The church is in gothic style, and consists of a nave, a tower, and a staircase wing. The entrance front is gabled, and contains an arched doorway, and a four-light window with Geometricaltracery. The staircase wing to the left also contains a doorway. The tower, to the right, has three stages, with lancet windows and corner pinnacles. Inside the church is a gallery on three sides.[57][71]
The statue of Benjamin Disraeli is in limestone and stands on a sandstonepedestal. The pedestal is square, about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high, with a moulded base and cornice, and there is an inscribed panel on the side. The figure of Disraeli is standing and holding a scroll.[18][72]
The school and house are in sandstone with a slate roof, and are in Gothic style. They have a T-shaped plan, with the school to the left having a cross wing, and the house attached to the right. The school has one storey, with two-light windows and a Tudor arched doorway in the main range, and a three-light window in the gable wall of the wing. The house has two storeys, two gabledbays, and sash windows.[73]
The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard. It has high sandstone walls with timber-framing carrying a wide hipped stone-slate roof. Inside is a shoulder-high coffin rest.[74]
The memorial is in Victoria Park, and is in sandstone with bronze plaques. It commemorates the men who fought, as well as those who were lost, in the Boer War. The memorial has a square base with square corner piers about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) high, and a square plinth surmounted by an obelisk. The base is carved with floral patterns in Art Nouveau style, and there are inscribed plaques on the base and on the plinth.[75]
The war memorial stands in front of St Anne's Church. It is in white stone and consists of an obelisk on two steps. There is an inscription on the front of the obelisk, and towards its top is a carving in sandstone of Christ on the cross and a fallen soldier. There are flanking walls ending in dedication stones inscribed with the names of the fallen.[76]
The war memorial originally stood by the Comrades of the Great War Club on Southport Road, and was moved to Coronation Park in 2012. It is mainly in sandstone, with a bottom step in granite. The memorial consists of a three-stepped base, a square pedestal, and a tapering obelisk 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) high. Carved on the obelisk are a palm branch and a laurel wreath in relief, and on the pedestal are inscriptions relating to both World Wars.[77]
A K6 type telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[78]
Situated in the courtyard behind the Buck i' th' Vine Inn, the former brewhouse and attached bottling house are in brick with slate roofs. They have two storeys and there are two gables. The windows have segmental heads, and in the brewhouse are also a doorway and a loading door.[79]
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