Until the Second World War, Kirkby was a small community. It then became a place to house people from Liverpool moved by slum clearance. All the listed buildings date from before this time, and consist of a church, houses and associated structures, two public houses, and a war memorial.
A brick house with a slate roof in two storeys. Its plan consists of two parallel gabled blocks. The windows are casements, and the entrance is through a small porch on the left side.[2]
The lodge is in red sandstone with a tiled roof. It has a single storey, a gabled porch and a bay window, and contains mullioned windows. On the roof is ornamental cresting.[5]
The public house is stuccoed with a slate roof, and in two storeys. The entrance front is in three bays with a central doorway and a two-storey bay window to the left. The windows are sashes.[6]
A pair of semi-detached houses in brick with stone dressings in three storeys. Each house is in two bays, and there is a gable over the central two bays. The outer bays contain doorways, that on the left with a porch, and they rise to towers with pyramidal roofs. The inner bays have bay windows. At the sides of both houses are recessed gabled wings.[7]
A detached brick house in two storeys, the lower floor being stuccoed. It has a central round-headed doorway with pilasters and a fanlight, flanked by bay windows. All the windows are sashes.[8]
A brick villa with stone dressings and a slate roof. It is in two storeys, and has a large square three-storey tower with a pyramidal roof on the northeast corner.[10]
A public house and an adjoining private house, both in brick with slate roofs, and both in two storeys. The public house has four gabled half-dormers with bargeboards. The private house has a central doorcase of Tuscanpilasters with a cornice.[11]
The church replaced an earlier church on the site, and was designed by Paley and Austin; it contains Norman and Gothic features. The church is built in sandstone with tiled roofs, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south porches, north and south aisles, a short chancel with an organ loft to the north and a chapel to the south, and a tower at the crossing. The tower has a saddleback roof, and a stair turret with a conical slated roof.[13][14]
Originally a smithy attached to a pair of semi-detached houses. They are in brick with sandstone dressings and tiled roofs. The former smithy is in a single storey and has mullioned windows and a pargettedgable. The houses have two storeys and their outer bays project forward with pargetted gables. The centre bays contain doorways and a gabled half-dormer.[15]
The war memorial stands in the churchyard of St Chad's Church. It is in sandstone and has a square two-stepped inscribed base on an octagonal plinth. On this stands a panelled column with ball flower ornamentation carrying a cross. The cross is carved with foliage, and it includes a central circular relief with the head of Christ and, on the reverse, the Chi Rho monogram.[16]