Cobbs Brow

Stone Cross

A late 17th century Grade II Listed house. Richard Halton, the village cobbler, lived and worked here in the late 1800s; his son, Henry Halton, was the schoolmaster, choirmaster, organist and Sunday School superintendent. His other son, William, also worked here as a cobbler. The house was sold by Lord Derby to the Halton family in 1920 for £350.


Rose Cottage

A Grade II Listed early 17th century cottage (previously two cottages) with an interesting cruck frame. These old houses were once built of wood and wattle and daub. The gable end still shows the wooden beams.

The Retreat

A late 17th century Grade II Listed building which was once a police station and had a blacksmith’s forge attached.

 

Woodcock View

A row of Grade II Listed cottages, brick built in 1878, possibly for the workers at Newburgh Colliery, and now the only evidence of Newburgh’s role in the Victorian industrial era.

 


Woodcock Hall

A three-bay Grade II* Listed house dated 1719, formerly known as Newburgh House. Built by James Spencer and his wife Catherine, whose initials are on the rainwater head.

Mug House Farm

On the outskirts of Newburgh where earthenware mugs were made. The farm house was demolished and replaced by a modern building in 2000.

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