WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY

WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY, HAIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068425
Date first listed:: 16-May-1978
List Entry Name:: WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY
Statutory Address:: WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY, HAIGH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-03-04
Reference:: IOE01/03284/06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068425
Date first listed:: 16-May-1978
List Entry Name:: WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY
Statutory Address 1:: WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY, HAIGH ROAD

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:: WALL HEY PIT FURNACE VENTILATION CHIMNEY, HAIGH ROAD

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 61006 08766

Details

ASPULL HAIGH ROAD SD 60 NW (north-east side) 6/15 Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation 16.5.78 Chimney (formerly listed in the Civil Parish of Haigh) II

Ventilation chimney to Wall Hey Pit Furnace. 1840. Stretcher bond brick square, with clasping pilasters at each corner forming a recessed face to each side with expressed plinth, apex drip mould and staggered cornice. Capping missing, all openings closed. Pitshaft 645 feet deep. This type of chimney was once common in the C19 and has since become rare following the technical development of mechanical fans.Mines and Miners of South Lancashire, J. Lane (No. 4).

Listing NGR: SD6100608766

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Lane, J , Mines and Miners of South Lancashire

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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.