Rivington Hall
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Rivington Hall
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 Location within the Borough of Chorley
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| General information | |
| Type | Manor house |
| Architectural style | Georgian façade |
| Location | Rivington, Lancashire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°37′30″N 2°33′22″W / 53.625°N 2.556°WCoordinates: 53°37′30″N 2°33′22″W / 53.625°N 2.556°W (grid reference SD633144) |
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| Material | Brick |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Designated | 22 October 1952 |
| Reference no. | 1165012 |
Rivington Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Rivington, Lancashire, England. It was the manor house for the Lords of the Manor of Rivington. The hall is of various builds as successor to a 15th-century timber-framed courtyard house that was built near to the present building of which no trace remains. It is a private residence.
The earliest mention of Rivington Hall was made in 1477, the year it was extended by Robert Pilkington, who inherited the Rivington estates in 1476. He employed William Holden to add a hall, cross chambers and two large windows. The building was evidently a "noble and imposing" structure costing Robert Pilkington nine marks which he paid in two instalments. The 15th-century wood and wattle and daub manor house was rebuilt in stone at the end of the 17th century. The hall was again rebuilt, incorporating some of the older stone building, with a red-brick Georgian frontage by Robert Andrews in 1774.
The oldest part of the hall is dated 1694 WB (William Breres) over a rear door on the west side. The date 1700 and WBM (William Breres and Martha) is on the north wing. The oldest parts of the hall are to the rear where the ground floor is built of sandstone rubble with quoins whilst the upper storey is built of coursed squared sandstone indicating a later date. The oldest parts contain mullion windows.
Robert Andrews demolished greater part of the old house in 1774 and built the present frontage. The hall west front is a symmetrical red brick, two-storey structure built in the classical Georgian style with five bays and a pedimented centre and stone parapet hiding the roof which has a chimney in each gable. The central doorway, approached by a flight of four stone steps, is flanked by side lights and has a pediment. At ground floor level there are four tall, 15-pane sash windows and on the floor above five shorter 12-pane sashes with splayed heads. The spout heads bear the date 1774 RA (Robert Andrews). The south wing was built in brick in the 19th century.
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