Leigh Fire Station
LEIGH FIRE STATION, WINDERMERE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253081
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH FIRE STATION, WINDERMERE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253081
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH FIRE STATION, WINDERMERE ROAD
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:
- LEIGH FIRE STATION, WINDERMERE 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 65618 00458
Details
The following building shall be added:- LEIGH WINDERMERE ROAD SD 60 SE (south side) 2/68 Leigh Fire Station II Fire station incorporating house. 1907. By Hunter, Borough Engineer. Pressed red brick with terracotta dressings, Welsh slate roof. 2-storey, 2-bay house on left of taller 2-storey, 5-bay engine house having 4-storey tower to rear. Queen Anne Revival style. House: central 6-panel door and overlight under tiled canopy on brackets which extends to right to cover a rectangular 2-light bay window having ovolo moulded surrounds with keystones. Bay 1 has 2-storey bay window in same style under dormer with hipped roof and finial. 1st floor window on right is flush but has matching dormer roof: terracotta plaque above door. Engine House: folding, part-glazed doors beneath segmental arches set on square concrete piers; the arches have raised, facetted voussoirs and linked hoodmould; narrow doorway to far left has decorative arch and cornice. 1st floor: moulded sills, ovolo-moulded surrounds and raised keystones to 5-light windows; those of bays 2 and 4 have stepped round-headed lights which rise above eaves beneath shaped gables set on corbels and capped by pediments. To far left is a semi- octagonal oriel window which rises as an embattled turret. Half-hipped roof with louvered gablets and finials. Rear: tower has side windows and modillioned cornice beneath parapet with rounded corner turrets; attached iron framework with 4 platforms linked by ladders. Well preserved and stylish example of its type.
Listing NGR: SD6561800458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213531
- 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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