Following the Norman Conquest, Clitheroe was of military importance, and the castle was built in the late 11th or early 12th century. The town gained its first charter in 1177. During the next centuries it was a market town and administrative centre, and its major industries were agriculture, quarrying and lime burning. By the 19th century it had become a centre of cotton and calico printing, but that industry declined during the 20th century.[1]
Most of the listed buildings are houses with associated structures and shops. The remains of the castle are listed at Grade I, and St Mary Magdalene's Church is listed at Grade II*. The other listed buildings include another church, schools, public houses, civic buildings, a museum, a library, a bridge, a former pinnacle moved from the Houses of Parliament, the three wells that formerly served the town, a war memorial, and a telephone kiosk.
The remains of the castle consist of a square Normankeep and a stretch of bailey walls. The keep originally had three floors, but these and the roof are no longer present. There are flat corner turrets, one of which contains a staircase. Buttresses were added to the walls in 1848–50 as part of a repair.[3][4]
The bridge carries the B6243 road over the River Ribble. It is in stone and consists of four arches with cutwaters. The main arch is larger and segmental, and the others are pointed.[5][6]
The oldest parts of the church are the tower and the east end. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1828–29 by Rickman and Hutchinson. In 1844 the top part of the tower and the spire were added, and in 1898 the roof and clerestory were built. The church is in gritstone with a slate roof and clay ridge tiles. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, aisles, vestries, a chancel with a south chapel, and a west steeple. The steeple has a four-stage tower with angle buttresses, a southeast stair turret, clock faces, and an embattledparapet with octagonal angle turrets. On the tower is a spire with flying buttresses and lucarnes.[7][8]
A rendered shop with a slate roof. There are two storeys. In the ground floor is a shop front with pilasters, and in the upper floor is one window on the front and another on the right return.[9]
A pair of rendered houses in two storeys with a gabled wing projecting forward. Most of the windows date from the 17th and the 18th centuries, and have dripstones. There is also a 19th-century glazed porch.[10]
The building was extended to the left in the 18th century. It is in stone and has two storeys. The older part has a 17th-century six-light window, and in the later part are two Venetian windows, one in each floor.[12]
The farmhouse is pebbledashed and in two storeys. The central doorway has a moulded surround, and a dripstone shaped to form a panel that contains an inscription. This is flanked on the ground floor by three-light mullioned and transomed windows. To the right is another doorway with a loading door above, and to the right of that is a stone barn with an arched cart entry.[13][14]
Two stone buildings with a slate roof, in two storeys. No. 39 has irregular windows with stone lintels, and No. 41 has two three-light sash windows in each floor, and a window in a blocked carriage entry.[15]
The farmhouse is in stone with two storeys and two bays. The doorway has a plain surround and a chamferedlintel, above which is an inscribed panel. There are dripstones above the door and windows.[16]
A row of five rendered shops in three storeys, with a mouldedeavescornice. Each shop has two bays, and the windows are sashes. Some of the shops fronts on the ground floor are modern, while others date from the 19th century.[17]
A shop with a renderedgable end facing the road, and with stone on the side. It has two storeys and rusticatedquoins. In the ground floor is a 19th-century shop front, and above it is a window with a plain surround.[19]
On the left is a rendered shop with rusticatedquoins in three storeys and a gable facing the road. There is a modern shop front in the ground floor and sash windows above. To the right is a two-storey rendered shop with a Welsh slate roof.[20]
A rendered house with a slate roof, in three storeys and three bays. The windows in the top floor are fixed, and those in the middle floor are casements. In the ground floor is a carriage entry, a window, and a doorway with a fanlight.[23]
The building is in stone with a Welsh slate roof, in two storeys and three bays. The windows have plain surrounds. On the left of the ground floor is a shop front, and to the right is a doorway with a fanlight and a cornice, and a window.[24]
A stuccoed house with two storeys and three bays on a plinth. The doorway has an open pediment and a semicircular fanlight, and the windows have plain surrounds. In the roof are three two-light gableddormers.[25]
The house is in limestone, and has two storeys and three bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds. The central doorway is flanked by engaged Tuscan columns, and has a semicircular fanlight and a pediment.[26]
The house is roughcast with two storeys and asymmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway has engaged Ionic columns, a frieze, and a cornice, and the windows have mouldedarchitraves. Above the central bay is a pediment with a decorated and inscribed plaque in the tympanum. On the corners are urn finials.[27]
A pebbledashed house in two storeys and one bay, with sash windows. There is a three-light window in the upper floor, and a single-light window to the right of a doorway in the ground floor.[28]
A pair of buildings in stone with rusticatedquoins and a slate roof. They are in two storeys, and the windows have plain stone surrounds. No. 2 has a modern shop front in the ground floor, and the doorway to No. 4 has pilasters and a pediment.[29]
The buildings have two storeys. The building to the north has a 19th-century shop front with six arcaded windows in the upper floor. The other buildings are rendered with sash windows in the upper floor. In the lower floor are two windows, a modern shop front, and a doorway with a plain surround.[32]
A pair of rendered buildings on a plinth with a stone-slate roof. They are in two storeys with a lean-to extension on the left. In the upper floor are three windows. The ground floor of No. 1 contains a window and a doorway, and No. 3 has a 19th-century shop front and a doorway. To the right is a passage entry.[33]
A pebbledashed shop with a main part in three storeys and two bays, with a 19th-century shop front in the ground floor. To the left is a two-storey part, the right bay having a canted shop window, above which is a canted bay window with an iron finial. The left bay has a carriage entrance with a window above.[34]
A rendered house with flanking stone pilasters on a stone plinth. It has two storeys and two bays. The windows and doorway have moulded surrounds, and above the door is a fanlight and a hood.[35]
A pair of pebbledashed stone houses with a renderedplinth. They have a double-span roof with gables facing the road. The doors and windows have plain stone surrounds.[36]
A row of three pebbledashed houses in two storeys. No. 11 has a doorway, a passage entry, and a window in the lower floor, and two windows above. No. 13 has one window in each floor and a doorway. No. 15 has a symmetrical front with two windows on each floor, and a central doorway with a mouldedarchitrave, a cornice and a rectangular fanlight.[37]
Three rendered houses. No. 31 has three storeys and three bays, No. 33 to the right is lower with three storeys and two bays, and No. 29 has two storeys and two bays. Nos. 29 and 31 each have a doorway with a semicircular fanlight and a pediment; No. 33 has a small passage door and a doorway with a cornice.[38]
A former public house and three houses. The former public house is rendered, in two storeys, with rusticatedquoins, and a round-headed doorway with a keystone and impost bands. The houses are in stone. Nos. 3 and 5 have three storeys and sash windows. No. 7 has two storeys, and a modern door with a passage entry to the right.[42]
A stone house with rusticatedquoins. It has two storeys, and consists of a main range and a projecting wing to the right. In the centre of the main range is a single-storey porch with panelled piers. To its left is a single-storey bay window, and above it is a round-headed window. The wing has a two-storey bay window with a parapet.[44]
The former stable is in stone with rusticatedquoins, a modillioncornice, and a stone-slate roof. In the centre is a carriage entry with a rusticated surround, and there are two round pitching holes.[45]
A pebbledashed house with two storeys and an attic, and a symmetrical gabled three-bay front. The central doorway has rusticated long-and-short jambs, a semicircular head with voussoirs, and a fanlight. To the right is a 19th-century two-storey gabled extension. Most of the windows are sashes.[46]
A stuccoed public house with three storeys and three bays. There are three three-light mullioned windows in each floor. The doorway is round-headed with panelled jambs, an archivolt, imposts, and a semicircular fanlight. Above the door is a wrought iron inn sign with grapes and vine leaves.[47][48]
A stone house in two storeys, with four windows in the upper storeys and two in the ground floor. Between the ground floor windows is a doorway with a mouldedarchitrave and a cornice, and to the left is a carriage entrance with a segmental head. In the roof are two 19th-century dormers.[49]
A house forming a rear wing to No. 21 Church Street. It is rendered in two storeys, and with sash windows. There are three windows in the upper floor, and a four-light window in the ground floor. Also in the ground floor is a re-used moulded 17th-century doorway with a cornice and chamferedjambs.[50]
A row of three stone houses with three storeys and one bay each. No. 36 is rendered with a Welsh slate roof. Nos. 34 and 36 have rusticatedquoins and doorways with rectangular fanlights.[51]
Originated as a Roman Catholic church, later used as a school. It is in stone and has a single storey. The main part has three round-headed windows with imposts and keystones, and contain Gothicktracery. To the left is a projecting part with four sash windows. At the rear is an extension of 1870.[52][53]
A rendered shop in three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, with an arched carriage entry to the left. The windows have stone surrounds.[54]
A stone house with two storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front. The central doorway has pilasters and a pediment, and the windows are sashes with moulded surrounds.[55]
A row of four stone houses on a renderedplinth with rusticatedquoins to the left, and a stone-slate roof. Each house has one window in each floor, and a doorway, all with plain stone surrounds.[57]
A pair of stone houses with a Welsh slate roof, in two storeys. Each house has a central doorway and two sash windows in each floor, all with plain surrounds.[58]
A group of three rendered cottages in two storeys. Each house has two windows in the upper floor. No. 13 has a semicircular fanlight above the door.[60]
A pair of houses and an entry to the right. The houses are pebbledashed on a renderedplinth, and have two storeys. They each have a sash window on each floor and a doorway, all with plain surrounds. The part of No. 27 is recessed and contains an opening with a window above.[61]
The building is rendered and in two storeys. There are five windows in the upper floor, and three windows and two doorways in the lower floor, all of which are round-headed with keystones, impost blocks, and modern glazing.[62]
A pair of stone houses with rusticatedquoins. There are three storeys, with paired doorways in the centre, and two windows in each floor, all of which have plain stone surrounds.[63]
A rendered building with rusticatedquoins on the left. It has three storeys with one window in each of the upper storeys. In the ground floor is a small shop window with a cornice, and a doorway with pilasters and a cornice.[66]
The farmhouse has been converted for domestic use. It is rendered and has two storeys. There are two doorways and four windows. To the right is an extension with one window in each floor, and to the left is a barn.[68]
A stuccoed house in two storeys. It contains a two-storey bow window with a canopy in the ground floor, a doorway with a semicircular head and a pediment, and a French window.[69]
A stuccoed house for the owner of Primrose Mill, in two storeys. The doorway has a round-headed fanlight, and the sash windows are arranged irregularly. On the front is a full-height bow window. To the right is a single-storey wing consisting of a bow window, and to the left is another single-storey extension.[13][72]
The town hall, later incorporated into the library, was designed by Thomas Rickman. It is in stone and has two storeys, a mouldedcornice and a parapet. Between the storeys is a string course, below which are five armorial shields. The windows are lancets that have drip moulds with leaf-stops. The doorway has an arched head and is flanked by colonnettes. On the roof is an octagonal bellcote with a weathervane.[73][74]
A textile mill, extended in about 1830, with weaving sheds added in 1853 and a boiler and engine house in 1910. It is built mainly in limestone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The original block has 15 bays and a four-storey warehouse block, and the extension has 14 bays. The boiler house and engine house are in a single storey.[75][76]
A pair of rendered shops in three storeys. Between the shops is an entry with a rusticated round-arched head. There are late 19th-century shop fronts in the ground floor, and above some windows are sashes and others are modern.[78]
A row of six pebbledashed houses with slate roofs in two storeys. Each house has a window in each floor, and a doorway, all with plain surrounds. Between Nos. 9 and 11 is a passage doorway.[79]
The building is in stone with a gable end facing the street, and has two storeys. In the ground floor is a doorway with a fanlight and a cornice, and a large and a small window, with two windows in the upper floor. On the right side are blocked windows and door, and there is a later rear wing.[80]
Rendered shops with a slate roof in three storeys. No. 3 has a 19th-century shop front with Ionicpilasters. To the right is a passage entry and a modern shop front. In the upper floors are windows with plain stone surrounds.[81]
A pair of rendered shops with rusticatedquoins and a slate roof in two storeys. There is a modern shop front in the ground floor of each building, and two windows in the upper storey.[82]
A row of three rendered buildings in two storeys with a Welsh slate roof. Each building has one window with a stone surround in the upper floor. Nos. 48 and 50 have modern shop fronts in the ground floor, and No. 52 has a doorway and window.[84]
The house is rendered with three storeys. There is one window in each floor with a stone surround, and the doorway has a rectangular fanlight and a cornice.[85]
A pair of rendered buildings with rusticatedquoins on the left. They have three storeys; No. 18 has one bay and a shop front with pilasters and a cornice, and No. 20 has two bays and a doorway with a stone surround, a cornice, and a rectangular fanlight.[86]
A rendered shop with rusticatedquoins and a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys, and there are two bays on Parson Lane and four on New Market Street. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, and the windows in the upper floor have plain surrounds.[87]
A stone warehouse with four storeys and two bays. In the ground floor are a carriage entry, a doorway, and a window, and there are two windows in each of the upper floors. All the openings have plain stone surrounds.[b][75][88]
Three pebbledashed houses on a corner site, in three storeys and with three bays on each front. On Wallgate is a modern shop front. The windows and doorways have plain stone surrounds. The centre windows in the middle and top floors on Wallgate are blank.[89]
The building is rendered with a slate roof, and has stone quoins flanking the windows and doorway. There are two storeys and four bays, with sash windows in the upper floor. In the ground floor is a doorway with a fanlight, a window with a segmental arch above which is decorative stonework, a two-light window with a blank panel above, and a window with a square head.[92]
The public house is rendered in two storeys with attics. The central doorway has a four-centred head, and is flanked by a bay on each side with a gable and finials. These bays contain mullioned windows with two lights in the gable and three lights in the lower storeys. To the right of these is a two-storey cantedbay window.[93][94]
The building is partly rendered with a Welsh slate roof and has two storeys. To the left is a range with three windows in each floor. To the right is a gabled wing, with four bays that include windows and a carriage entry.[95]
The house is rendered with a Welsh slate roof, and is in two storeys. The windows are modern with stone surrounds, and in the ground floor is a carriage entry.[96]
A rendered shop with a Welsh slate roof, in two storeys. It has a 19th-century shop front with carved pilasters, an entablature, and a cornice. In the upper floor are five windows, the outer ones with round heads, and the central window with a rectangular head and foliated spandrels. The ground floor has a central entrance, the flanking windows having decorated surrounds similar to the central window above.[97]
Three rendered buildings with rendered rusticatedquoins and a slate roof. They have three storeys, and there is a later extension to the left. The doors to Nos. 56 and 58 have fanlights.[98]
A pair of rendered houses with rusticatedquoins on the left, and a slate roof. Each house has a doorway with a stone surround and a wooden hood, and there is one sash window in each floor.[100]
The public house is rendered, it stands on a junction, and has two storeys. The windows have stone lintels, and the doorway on the corner is modern.[101]
The hotel is in roughcast stone with a stone-slate roof, in three storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a rusticated surround, a mouldedcornice, and a rectangular fanlight. At the rear is a two-storey stable block.[102]
The building is in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle. It is built in stone, in Gothic style, and has three storeys and a crenellatedparapet. In the left part is a square turret, and in the right part is a porch in Jacobean style with ball finials and a round-headed entry. Most of the windows have round heads, and some have mullions. The building has been converted for use as a museum.[103][104]
A rendered shop with two storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a carriage entry with a segmental head to the left, and a modern shop window to the right. Most of the windows in the upper floors are sashes.[106]
A public house in Elizabethan style. It has three storeys and three bays. The central bay has a stepped gable with a finial, and in the ground floor is a cantedbay window. The windows in the middle floor are mullioned and transomed. The left bay in the ground floor contains a carriage entry with a four-centred head.[47][107]
This was built as the National School, and has since been converted for other uses. It is rendered with rusticatedquoins and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is in two storeys and seven bays, there is a single-storey extension to the right. The central bay projects forward and is gabled with finials. It contains a doorway with a Tudor arched head, and in the gable is a circular plaque. The windows have stone surrounds and dripstones.[47][109]
The church is in stone, with a partly rendered west end, and a slate roof. It is in Norman style, and consists of a nave, a short chancel with vestries, and a west tower flanked by porches. The tower has three stages and has a west doorway, above which is a two-light window, and a clock face. At the top is an arcadedparapet and large square corner pinnacles. All the windows and the doorway have round heads.[52][110]
Originating as a pinnacle for the Houses of Parliament, and designed by Charles Barry, it was moved to its present site in 1937. It consists of an octagonal stone turret with lion supporters. Standing on a plinth, it has lancet openings, gargoyles, and crocketedfinials.[47][111]
A Roman Catholic church designed by Joseph Hansom in Early English style, the Lady Chapel was added in 1884, and the interior was enriched in 1899 by Edmund Kirby. The church is in limestone with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. It consists of a nave with a clerestory and a west baptistry, north and south aisles, a sanctuary with an apse and a south Lady Chapel. To the north a sacristy links to the presbytery. The west end is flanked by a pair of square towers; each of which has a recess for a statue and a small lancet window, and it rises to an octagonal belfry with an octagonal conical spire. The presbytery has two storeys, a turret at the front, and a small square tower at the rear.[52][112]
The buildings are in stone, and have pilasters at the ends and between the buildings. There are three storeys, with two bays in No. 1, and three in No. 3. The windows are sashes. In the ground floor are a 19th-century shop front, a modern shop front, and a doorway with an architrave and a fanlight.[113]
A row of three stone houses in two storeys with attics. There are two gables with carved bargeboards, and the windows have plain surrounds. There are three doorways, each with a fanlight, foliated spandrelss, and a rectangular drip mould that has terminals carved with human heads.[115]
A rendered shop with three storeys and two bays. It has a mouldedeavescornice, and in the upper floors are modern windows with plain stone surrounds. The ground floor contains a 19th-century shop front.[117]
A pair of pebbledashed houses with a slate roof in two storeys. Mytton House has a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has a pointed head and fanlight. No. 13 to the right has two bays and paired central entrances with segmental pediments. All the windows are sashes.[93][118]
The buildings at Clitheroe Castle are in stone with a Welsh slate roof, and in Gothic style. The outbuilding has two storeys, mullioned and transomed windows, a crenellatedparapet, and a square turret. The stables are in one storey and have carriage entries, windows with pointed heads, and round pitching holes.[7][119]
A stone building with rusticatedquoins in two storeys and three bays. The windows have plain surrounds; those in the lower floor have two lights and cornices. The central doorway is flanked by pink granite columns with carved capitals, and it has a decorated, pointed arch and a fanlight.[47][120]
The building is in stone, and has a copedparapet and a mouldedcornice. There are two storeys, with four bays on King Street, three on Market Place, and one on the corner between them. The doorway is in the corner bay, and has a moulded surround with a cornice.[121]
Originally built as the Clitheroe Public Hall, it was converted into a cinema in 1921, and converted again in 2007–08 into a performing arts centre. The building is in stone with a slate roof. The entrance front has a central gable under which is a doorway with engaged columns under a mouldedGothic arch and flanked by casement windows.[93][124]
The library is sited on the fork of two roads. It is in stone with a slate roof, and has a basement, two storeys and an attic. The corner is rounded, and rises to become polygonal with a conical roof surmounted by a ventilator turret. It contains a clock face under a gable and two round windows. The ground floor windows along the sides have arched heads, and the other windows are rectangular. Above the doorway is a three-light fanlight.[73][125]
The war memorial stands in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle, and consists of a bronze statue of a Grenadier Guard in battle dress holding a rifle and with his head bowed. The rest of the memorial is in white granite on a square pedestal with a square plinth on a three-stepped square base. On the pedestal are plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in both World Wars. Behind the main statue is a relocated memorial to those lost in the Boer War.[47][126]
A K6 type telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[127]
One of the three wells serving the town. It consists of a rectangular stone pool with a flagged floor that is divided into two unequal sections by a stone gangway.[128]
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