Cockshutts Farm Cottage Cockshutts Farmhouse

COCKSHUTTS FARM COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237665
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1968
List Entry Name:
Cockshutts Farm Cottage Cockshutts Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COCKSHUTTS FARM COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Cockshutts Farmhouse and Cockshutts Farm Cottage in Simonstone. A former farmhouse, which is probably 16th century.
Contributed by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237665
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Cockshutts Farm Cottage Cockshutts Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COCKSHUTTS FARM COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
COCKSHUTTS FARMHOUSE, SCHOOL 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.

Understanding list entries

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COCKSHUTTS FARM COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address:
COCKSHUTTS FARMHOUSE, SCHOOL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Simonstone
National Grid Reference:
SD 77635 34540

Details

SD 73 SE SIMONSTONE SCHOOL LANE

3/61 Cockshutts Farmhouse and Cockshutts Farm Cottage 17.12.1968 formely listed as Cockshott 's Farmhouse) II

Farmhouse, probably C16 enlarged in C17, now 2 dwellings. Slobbered thin sandstone rubble (except wing which is faced in squared sandstone), stone slate roof with a chimney on the ridge at the junction of the bays, one at the right gable, and another at the rear corner of the wing. T-shaped: 2-bay through-passage plan hall-range with projecting stair-turret porch to 2nd bay, and crosswing at left end. Two storeys; 2-storey porch with carried-down roof has chamfered doorway to left, round headed light to right; hallpart has a 5-light window with recessed ovolo and fillet moulded mullions and a hoodmould, an inserted door close to the wing on the left, at 1st floor a similar 2-light window and a 12-pane sash. Gable wall of wing has windows of 5 lights at ground floor and a 4 lights above, both with cavetto-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds. Right return wall has 2 small deeply-chamfered round-headed lights on each floor (one blocked); rear of this part has 3 similar windows at 1st floor, and at ground floor 2 small windows and a wide shouldered opening to a recessed doorway to the through-passage; rear of hallpart has, inter alia, quoins to the junction, a recessed 2-light window at 1st floor (lacking the mullion), and a little square light above the back door next to the wing; rear gable of wing has two 2-light windows at ground floor and another above. Interior: crudely-chamfered beams in the hallpart, and a smokehood in the chamber above; chamfered stone doorways to both rooms in the crosswing (both of these made like external doorways, and one of them inside out); parlour in front bay of wing has 2 beams supported by exceptionally large moulded corbels in the outer wall; kitchen in rear bay has small inglenook fireplace; wing has collar truss roof.

Listing NGR: SD7763534540

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
414910
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.

Ordnance survey map of Cockshutts Farm Cottage Cockshutts Farmhouse

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jul-2026 at 13:05:08.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos