Moorcroft House
MOORCROFT HOUSE, 5, COBB'S BROW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220937
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Moorcroft House
- Statutory Address:
- MOORCROFT HOUSE, 5, COBB'S BROW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220937
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Moorcroft House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORCROFT HOUSE, 5, COBB'S BROW 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:
- MOORCROFT HOUSE, 5, COBB'S BROW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48387 10204
Details
NEWBURGH
SD4810 COBB'S BROW LANE 663-1/6/105 (South East side) 11/05/53 No.5 Moorcroft House
GV II
House, now flats. Dated 1741 on rainwater head; altered and internally remodelled. Handmade red brick in Flemish bond, with some sandstone dressings and slate roof. Two storeys and attics, 3 windows, symmetrical; with a low plinth of sandstone rubble and a large moulded gutter cornice. The doorway, up one semicircular step, has a moulded architrave, a door of 8 fielded panels with an overlight of 4 shouldered panes, and a large semicircular canopy carried on very elaborate carved console brackets. The 2 windows at ground floor and the 3 above are all unhorned 12-pane sashes with exposed boxes, and have flat-arched heads of gauged brick with keystones; and those to the left of the doorway each have one pane opening as a casement. To the right of the doorway is a downspout which has a large rainwater head with raised lettering: O R C 1741 Gable chimneys, corbelled out. Attic windows in gable walls. Right-hand gable wall mostly covered by attached former barn. rear: segmental-headed openings, mostly altered. Forms group with Nos 1 and 3 to the left (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD4838710204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386343
- 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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