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Moses Cockers Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Rivington, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6325 / 53°37'56"N

Longitude: -2.5494 / 2°32'57"W

OS Eastings: 363766

OS Northings: 415244

OS Grid: SD637152

Mapcode National: GBR BVMF.VL

Mapcode Global: WH97D.TY5N

Plus Code: 9C5VJFJ2+X6

Entry Name: Moses Cockers Farm

Listing Date: 30 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1164894

English Heritage Legacy ID: 184429

ID on this website: 101164894

Location: Chorley, Lancashire, BL6

County: Lancashire

District: Chorley

Civil Parish: Rivington

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Rivington

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

Tagged with: Farmhouse

Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

SD 61 NW
10/175

RIVINGTON
SHEEP HOUSE LANE
Moses Cockers Farm

(Formerly listed as DEAN HEAD LANE Moses Cocker' s Farmhouse)

II

Farmhouse. Dated 1693 on lintel of door, altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with stone gable coping, one brick and one stone chimney. L-plan: two-bay end-baffle-entry with rear wing, various lean-to's. Two storeys; modern gabled porch in line with the gable chimney at right hand end, protecting a doorway with roll-moulded surround and lintel lettered in relief

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R:A:M

16 93

, the panels of this lettering stepped over a deep chamfered square recess framing a carved inverted heart; two large windows on each floor, all altered; brick corner chimney to left, rebuilt stone chimney at right gable. High plinth to first bay and left gable wall, continued in rear wing, which is one bay and one and a half storeys, and has a broad gable wall with altered mullioned windows: formerly three and two lights at ground floor and two lights in the gable, all with hoodmoulds but lacking all mullions except one chamfered flush mullion in the three-light window. Other parts covered by lean-to additions.

Interior: housepart in second bay has inglenook with heck and stop-chamfered bressummer, and two similarly decorated beams; parlour in first bay has cross-corner fire-place (altered).

Listing NGR: SD6376615244

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