Moorcroft House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1953. House. 1 related planning application.
Moorcroft House
- WRENN ID
- swift-remnant-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Moorcroft House, 5, Cobb's Brow Lane, Newburgh
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 102
- Coordinates
- 53.58588, -2.78113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorcroft House is a house that has been converted into flats, dated 1741 as indicated on the rainwater head. It has been altered and internally remodelled. The building is constructed of handmade red brick in Flemish bond, with some sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It is two storeys high with attics and features three symmetrical windows. The house has a low plinth made of sandstone rubble and a large moulded gutter cornice.
The entrance is accessed by one semicircular step and features a doorway with a moulded architrave. The door consists of eight fielded panels and has an overlight with four shouldered panes, topped by a large semicircular canopy supported by elaborate carved console brackets. The two ground floor windows and the three above are all unhorned 12-pane sashes with exposed boxes, featuring flat-arched heads made of gauged brick with keystones. The windows to the left of the doorway each have one opening pane as a casement.
To the right of the doorway, there is a downspout with a large rainwater head that has raised lettering: O R C 1741. The house has gable chimneys that are corbelled out, and attic windows are present in the gable walls. The right-hand gable wall is mostly covered by an attached former barn. At the rear, there are segmental-headed openings, most of which have been altered. Moorcroft House forms a group with Nos 1 and 3 to the left.
Local climate
Moorcroft House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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