BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE

BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163139
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163139
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE

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 65691 00293

Details

LEIGH MARKET PLACE SD 60 SE (east side) 2/35 Boar's Head Public House (formerly listed with stable 9/7/75 block) G.V. II

Public house. "Rebuilt 1900 AD" on decorative cartouche. Red brick with terracotta dressings and green slate roof. 4 x 5 bays with 2 storeys. Eclectic Baroque. Projecting plinth, first and second floor bands separated by Ionic columns and a coped parapet. Semi-circular-arched ground floor windows with keystones archivolts and casements with etched glass. Panelled doors in bay 3 with fanlight, columns and flat pilasters which enclose arabesque-enriched spandrel panels. Canted and bow oriel windows on the first floor with terracotta mullions and transoms. The left corner is articulated by an octagonal lead-covered cupola on columns and scrolls. It is balanced by a gable to the right with ball finials and a keyed oculus. The side elevations are treated in a similar manner. The Church Street elevation bears a boar's head peering through an arabesque surround in the central gable. Tall clustered chimney stacks. The building originally housed the brewery head offices. The interior is remarkably complete and retains many original features. Staircase with turned balusters and pulvinated frieze to closed string. Original timber and cast-iron fireplaces. Art Nouveau tiles. Plaster cornices. Original bar fittings.

Listing NGR: SD6568500299

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Legacy System number:: 213503
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.