Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church

Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church, Sheep House Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165054
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church
Statutory Address:: Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church, Sheep House Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165054
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church
Statutory Address 1:: Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church, Sheep House Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church, Sheep House Lane, Rivington, BL6 7SE

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 62474 14450

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 December 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards. SD 61 SW 14/178

RIVINGTON SHEEP HOUSE LANE Bellhouse about 10 metres west of Rivington Church

(formerly listed as Bellhouse c.10 metres west of church of Holy Trinity) II Bellhouse, now store. Probably C16. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Small square building of one storery raised on a basement, with a plain basement door on the south side, a raised door on the north side approached by steps, a louvred two-light window with chamfered mullion on each side except north (mullion missing from south side), and a round-headed louvred window on the north side. Said to have been built to receive a large bell purchased from the church at Wigan in 1542.

Reference: VCH Lancs V, p.293.

Listing NGR: SD6247414450

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Legacy System number:: 184442
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 293

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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.