Former National Westminster Bank

1 and 3 King Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384472
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Former National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address:: 1 and 3 King Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384472
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Former National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address 1:: 1 and 3 King Street

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1 and 3 King Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 58197 05535

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 1 March 2024 to update the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards

SD5805NW 24-1/7/17

WIGAN KING STREET (South West side) Nos.1 and 3

11/07/83

GV II

Includes: Former National Westminster Bank WALLGATE.

Bank, now nightclub. 1866, with later additions to rear. Designed by Walters, Barker and Ellis of Manchester. Sandstone ashlar, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site. Classical style with Italianate accent.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, with four-window facades to Wallgate and King Street. Hammer-dressed plinth, continuous channelled apron to ground-floor windows, frieze with bead-and-reel enrichment and prominent moulded cornice doubling as sill-band to first floor, plain frieze and prominent bracketed and dentilled cornice which carries a blocking course with upstands to the Wallgate facade. The ground floor of this facade has a large round-headed doorway to the left, with double doors and a plain fanlight in an eared architrave with carved enrichment and a straight moulded cornice; and three large segmental-headed sashed windows with eared architraves which have console keystones. The first floor has similar but smaller windows with simpler architraves. The four-window left return (to King Street) has matching fenestration and a pair of side-wall chimneys; beyond this is a set-back two-window addition which has a tall doorway and a large tripartite window at ground-floor, and above this a feature balcony to the larger of the first-floor windows; and attached to the left of this is a short single-storey addition with a large doorway.

INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5819705535

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 484906
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.