Listed buildings in Raby, Merseyside

Raby is a village in Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains eight buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".^[1] The listed buildings consist of farmhouses, farm buildings, cottages, and a public house.

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes
Jasmine Cottage 53°18′37″N 3°02′09″W / 53.31032°N 3.03571°W	—	1611	A stone cottage with one storey and an attic. It has four bays, the first two bays thatched and the third and fourth, which are extensions, with a slate roof, the third bay being taller. The windows are casements.[2]
Wheatsheaf Inn 53°18′41″N 3°02′08″W / 53.31147°N 3.03554°W		1611	A timber-framed public house with brick infill on a stone base, and with a thatched roof. It is in one storey with attics, and has a two-bay front with a lower two-bay outbuilding to the right. The windows are casements, and in the attic are eyebrow dormers.[3][4]
Building, White House Farm 53°18′42″N 3°02′11″W / 53.31153°N 3.03638°W	—	17th century	Originally a timber-framed cottage, later encased in sandstone, brick and render. It has  1 ^1⁄2 storeys and a corrugated iron roof. The windows include a four-light casement.[5]
Pear Tree Cottage 53°18′49″N 3°02′05″W / 53.31369°N 3.03463°W	—	17th century	A stone house with a thatched roof, it is in a single storey, and has two bays and a rear wing. The windows are casements.[3][6]
Corner Farm Farmhouse 53°18′41″N 3°02′08″W / 53.31147°N 3.03554°W	—	1723	A brick farmhouse with a tiled roof, it is in one storey with an attic and has a three-bay front, the left bay being gabled. The windows in the ground floor are sashes, and in the upper floor they are casements, those in the central and right bays being in gabled half-dormers. The doorway in the central bay has a fanlight.[7]
Farm building, Corner Farm 53°18′40″N 3°02′08″W / 53.31120°N 3.03554°W	—	18th century	The farm building is in brick on a stone base, it has a stone wing at the right end and a slate roof. The north end is a barn, and the rest contains stables. They contain entrances and ventilation holes.[8]
Chicken Corner Farm 53°18′58″N 3°01′28″W / 53.31624°N 3.02458°W		18th century	A stone house with a thatched roof in a single storey with attics and two bays. It contains two doorways and casement windows, those in the attics in eyebrow dormers. To the left is a two-bay single-storey stone outbuilding with a slate roof.[9]
Stanacres 53°19′05″N 3°02′02″W / 53.31806°N 3.03397°W	—	1849–51	A country house in Gothic style by Charles Verelst, later divided into two houses. It is in sandstone with slate roof, and has  2 ^1⁄2 storeys and gables of differing sizes. The entrance front has three bays with a central porch. Most of the windows are sashes, some are mullioned and transomed, and there are casement dormers and a bay window.[10][11]

References

Citations

1. Historic England
2. Historic England (1343528)
3. Hartwell et al. (2011), p. 550
4. Historic England (1075474)
5. Historic England (1400982)
6. Historic England (1299643)
7. Historic England (1185482)
8. Historic England (1075414)
9. Historic England (1343502)
10. Hartwell et al. (2011), pp. 550–551
11. Historic England (1391877)

Sources

• Historic England, "Jasmine Cottage, Raby (1343528)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Wheatsheaf Inn, Raby (1075474)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Building to the west of White House Farm, Raby (1400982)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Pear Tree Cottage, Raby (1299643)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Corner Farm Farmhouse, Raby (1185482)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Farm building to Corner Farm alongside The Green, Raby (1075414)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Chicken Corner Farm, Raby (1343502)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 December 2014
• Historic England, "Stanacres, Raby (1391877)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 December 2014
• Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 2 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