52 And 54, Moor Street

SD4108SE 663-1/8/166 11/08/72

ORMSKIRK MOOR STREET (South side) Nos.52 AND 54 (Formerly Listed as: MOOR STREET (South side) Nos.50, 52 AND 54)

GV II

Row of 3 cottages, now 2 dwellings. c.1800, slightly altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond (5+1), with sandstone dressings and composition tile roof. Shallow double-depth, plan, each cottage single-fronted. Two low storeys, 2+2+2 windows; 3 plain doorways with wedge lintels and now with panelled doors; one square window to the right of each doorway, all 2-light horizontal sliding sashes with 15 small panes in each leaf; at 1st floor, one similar above each of these and a 25-pane fixed window above the doorway; all these windows with raised sills and wedge lintels. Two ridge chimneys. HISTORY: probably associated with former handloom weaving shop (No.58, q.v.) to the left. Unusually intact survival. Forms group with this, and with No.50 adjoining to the right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4164008154