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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1953
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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
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