FORMER CANAL WAREHOUSE

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068479
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1987
Statutory Address:
FORMER CANAL WAREHOUSE, CANAL STREET

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER CANAL WAREHOUSE, CANAL STREET

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

District:
Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference:
SJ 65483 99865

Details

LEIGH CANAL STREET SD 69 NE Former Canal 6/23 Warehouse II Canal warehouse, now warehousing. Late C18 stone-built warehouse with late C19 brick-built addition. Graduated stone slate and slate roofs respectively. 4-bay 2-storey C18 warehouse and 5-bay 3-storey C19 warehouse. The former has loading doors on each foor in bay 3 (front and rear) with segmental arches (one of which has been replaced by a steel joist). Bays 2 and 3 have 3-light flat-faced stone mullion windows on each floor (front and rear) and bay 1 a canted 2- storey bay window. Ridge chimney stack. The later warehouse is considerably deeper and taller having four 16-pane casement windows with segmental brick arches on each floor and central loading doors with blue brick dressings and a gable above the eaves. The eaves have dentilled brick detailing. Coped gables. Similar elevation to rear but with a large projecting canopy over the loading doors. An interesting juxtaposition of C18 and C19 industrial architecture.

Listing NGR: SJ6548399865

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
213491
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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Date: 29 Apr 2001
Reference: IOE01/03284/30
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