Leigh Town Hall
2-18, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163007
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- 2-18, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163007
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-18, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEIGH TOWN HALL, CIVIC SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2-18, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH TOWN HALL, CIVIC SQUARE
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 65644 00181
Details
LEIGH CIVIC SQUARE SD 60 SE (south side) 2/25 Leigh Town Hall G.V. II Includes Nos. 2 to 18 (even) Market Street. Town hall. 1904- 7. By J. C. Prestwich. Ashlar with slate roof. Large 2 and 3-storey U-shaped building with principal elevations of 8 and 7 bays onto Market Place and Market Street respectively. Edwardian Baroque. Bays 2 to 8 are symmetrical about a central doorway and are framed by giant flat pilasters supporting a modillioned cornice and blocking course. The door has an open semi-circular dentilled pediment supported on blocked columns. 2 windows on either side have architraves and keystones. The council chamber and committee rooms on the first floor are given emphasis by a giant order of blocked columns and tall windows. A steeply pitched hipped roof is centrally crowned by a belvedere and elaborate cupola. The Market Street elevation is less monumental but of equal quality; it too is symmetrical, the end bays being gabled and having bow windows at first floor level. Shop fronts on the ground floor, a giant order on the first but this time in flat pilasters, and triple second floor windows separated by blocked columns. An octagonal turret turns the corner. The interior is executed with equal quality and richness. Scagliola columns support the entrance hall giving access to the imperial staircase and, in turn, the council chamber and offices. Timber, glass and plasterwork is of particularly high quality. Generally an accomplished design which contributes greatly to its immediate context.
Listing NGR: SD6566000178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213493
- 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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