Fisher House
FISHER HOUSE, RIVINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072508
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Fisher House
- Statutory Address:
- FISHER HOUSE, RIVINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072508
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Fisher House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FISHER HOUSE, RIVINGTON LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FISHER HOUSE, RIVINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rivington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62736 14459
Details
RIVINGTON RIVINGTON LANE SD 61 SW 14/181 Fisher House 17.4.67 - II
House. Late C18, altered. Stored stucco on brick, with stone plinth and dressings, roof of stone slate (front) and slate (rear). Double depth plan of 3 bays and 3 storeys, symmetrical, with gable chimneys and flanking 2 storey service wings (that on right mostly demolished); central round-headed doorway in moulded surround with imposts, door of 6 hexagonal panels, fanlight with radiating glazing bars; two 12-pane sashes at ground floor (that on the left larger in both dimensions and breaking the plinth) and 3 at 1st floor all with splayed stone heads, three 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor; wooden eaves gutter supported on brackets and lined with lead. Set back at each end a brick service wing, that on the left with one 12-pane sashed window (altered as garage), that on the right reduced to a screen wall with blocked window. Interior: kitchen has back door of double-layered horizontal and vertical planks; staircase: doglegged, with open string, stick balusters, ramped handrail. History: said to have been built by Rev John Fisher, incumbent of Church of Holy Trinity 1763-1813.
Listing NGR: SD6273614459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184434
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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