Listed buildings in Gayton, Merseyside

Gayton is a village in Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains four buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The listed buildings consist of a country house, a dovecote, a farmhouse, and a former windmill.

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Grade  | Criteria[1]

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II*  | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II  | Buildings of national importance and special interest

## Buildings

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Name and location  | Photograph  | Date  | Notes  | Grade

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Gayton Hall
53°18′56″N 3°05′32″W﻿ / ﻿53.31561°N 3.09226°W﻿ / 53.31561; -3.09226﻿ (Gayton Hall) |

| 17th century | A country house in brick on a stone base with stone dressings. It has three storeys and a main front of nine bays, The middle three bays projecting forward and containing an Ionic doorcase. Inside the house are two Jacobean staircases.[2][3] | II*
Dovecote, Gayton Hall
53°18′58″N 3°05′32″W﻿ / ﻿53.31602°N 3.09214°W﻿ / 53.31602; -3.09214﻿ (Dovecote, Gayton Hall) |

| 1663  | The dovecote is built in brick with stone dressings, and has an octagonal plan. The entrance has flush quoins and a lintel inscribed with initials and the date. On the front and back are vertical bull's eye openings.[2][4] | II*
Windmill
53°19′23″N 3°05′11″W﻿ / ﻿53.32299°N 3.08652°W﻿ / 53.32299; -3.08652﻿ (Windmill) |  | Mid 18th century or earlier | The windmill is in stone and consists of a conical two-storey tower. It contains small windows and an entrance with a rusticated lintel. The windmill has since been converted into a house.[2][5] | II
Old Farm
53°18′57″N 3°05′36″W﻿ / ﻿53.31578°N 3.09333°W﻿ / 53.31578; -3.09333﻿ (Old Farm) |

| 1761  | A brick farmhouse with a roof partly in stone and partly in slate. It has two storeys, and a front of eight bays; the left four bays were the original farmhouse, and the other four bays are from a farm building later converted into residential use. The windows are a mixture of sashes, some of which are horizontally-sliding, and casements.[6] | II

## References

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Citations

1. ^ Historic England
2. ^ a b c Hartwell et al. (2011), p. 372
3. ^ Historic England & 1075366
4. ^ Historic England & 1075367
5. ^ Historic England & 1343515
6. ^ Historic England & 1343514

Sources

* Historic England, "Gayton Hall (1075366)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 December 2014
* Historic England, "Dovecote to north of Gayton Hall (1075367)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 December 2014
* Historic England, "Old Windmill, Gayton (1343515)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 December 2014
* Historic England, "The Old Farm, Gayton (1343514)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 December 2014
* Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 1 April 2015
* Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6