Rivington Hall Barn

RIVINGTON HALL BARN, RIVINGTON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072510
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Rivington Hall Barn
Statutory Address:
RIVINGTON HALL BARN, RIVINGTON LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072510
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Rivington Hall Barn
Statutory Address 1:
RIVINGTON HALL BARN, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RIVINGTON HALL BARN, 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 63316 14488

Details

RIVINGTON RIVINGTON LANE (off) SD 61 SW 14/186 Rivington Hall Barn 22.10.52 GV II

Barn, now licensed for music, dancing etc. Probably C16, restored, altered and enlarged c.1905 by Jonathan Simpson for Lord Leverhulme. Cruck frame, cladding of coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Long range of 7 bays, with aisles added c.1905, the roof carried down over them on flatter pitch; in centre of west side a T-plan timber-framed porch in Tudor style, and in both gables a long flush mullion window at ground floor and similar mullion and transom window above; east side altered and with various service additions. Interior: 6 full cruck trusses all on large boulder padstones and all with tie-beams, collars and yokes; aisle principals, dorsals and windbraces purlins appear to be all modern additions. Reference: VCH Lancs V p.289

Listing NGR: SD6331614488

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Legacy System number:
184439
Legacy System:
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 25 Lancashire,

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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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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