Church Cottage, boundary wall and piggery

Church Cottage is a multi-phase property with origins as an 18th or early 19th-century pair of workers cottages, since amalgamated into a single dwelling. It is constructed primarily of red brick with a tiled roof and follows a T-plan, with a number of single storey additions to the north, south and eastern elevations.

The cottage is two storeys and comprised of two bays. The principal frontage faces the street, though access is gained at the rear. The principal elevation has four modern sash windows to the ground floor; the central two replace the former doorways into each of the cottages. The windows are topped with brick lintels and have accompanying brick cills. There are two smaller windows above, and there is a decorative bargeboard at eaves level.

To the south-western elevation of the cottage, there is a small, single storey protruding wing. This houses one intact and one partially intact bread oven, with some evidence to suggest the presence of an earlier bread oven. Also on this elevation, there are two windows at first floor level, flanking a centrally placed chimney stack.

The rear elevation is a gable end and has a large centrally placed chimney stack at the rear of the T-plan, which is partially obscured by a modern single storey extension. This extension is comprised of dwarf walls and large glazed panels. At first floor level, there is a small window and there is brick dentilled detailing around the gable end. To the right of the extension, within the gable end, is a ground floor window under a brick arch. Further to the right is the entrance to another 20th-century extension, which is clad in timber.

The property has also been extended to its north-eastern elevation. This oldest portion of this elevation features two small windows under brick arches to both the ground and first floor; on both floors these flank a centrally placed chimney stack. As the property has been extended to the rear to form the T-plan form, a cat-slide roof has been inserted which abuts a first-floor dormer window with brick arch towards the rear of the property. To the left-hand side of the elevation is a single-storey, timber-clad extension with a pitched roof.

The property is entered through the late 20th-century timber clad extension, which leads into a foyer, and then into the Victorian section of the building which houses the kitchen. Within the kitchen is a Victorian range; the manufacturer's plate reads J A S Brindle & Co Chorley. The kitchen leads to two front rooms, identifiable as the front rooms of the original cottages; both are understood to retain their original floor tiles. The fireplaces in both rooms have been replaced by stoves and the exposed beams are understood to be largely original, with some late 19th-century replacement following a fire; the central supporting beam is chamfered. Both rooms have a staircase leading to the upper floor of the older section of the property. An opening has been made in the walls here to allow the amalgamation of the cottages, and to allow for the connection to the later parts of the property. The bedrooms retain their fireplaces.

The property boundary is partially demarcated by a stone wall, with openings to the main road through the village and to the rear of the property and toward the Rectory. Attached to the stone wall in a south-westerly position is a brick-built piggery, with modern roof covering and extensions.