94-118, LEIGH ROAD
94-118, LEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253226
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 94-118, LEIGH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 94-118, LEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253226
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 94-118, LEIGH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 94-118, LEIGH 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:
- 94-118, LEIGH 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 66608 02558
Details
The following building shall be added: ATHERTON LEIGH ROAD SD 60 SE (south-west side), 2/61 Howe Bridge Nos 94-118 (even) GV II Miners cottages incorporating shops and attached institute. Dated 1875; C20 alterations. For Fletcher Burrows Ltd. Red brick, graduated Welsh slate roof. Elongated range with tall, gabled, 2-storey, 2 x 5-bay institute across left end then lower 2-storey cottages having 1st floor windows in rhythm 3:2:3:2:3:1:1 and penetrated by 3 gabled projections containing shops (nos 102, 110 and 118). Institute (nos 94 and 96): plinth; brick sill bands and stone sills to transomed 3- light casements under segmental arches. Chequered floor band beneath plaque with 'ATHERTON COLLIERIES VILLAGE CLUB'; short 4-light windows to 1st floor; decorative brick band across gable containing oculus with glazing bars in dentilled surround. Truncated lateral stacks; that on right rising from short gabled projection (C20 additions to ground floor not of special interest). Left return (facing School St.): blocked, pointed-arched central doorway; bays 1 and 2 rise as a gable whilst bay 5 forms lateral stack with with date 'A/1875/D' in quatrefoil plaque. Cottages and shops: Nos 102 and 110 form gabled projections with shop doors and tall casements divided by piers beneath linked lintels, brick hoodmoulds and bands. No 102 has 2 segmentally-arched casements to 1st floor and twin slits in gable; no 110 is taller with attic window in gable. No 118 is also gabled but has side buttresses and central shop door flanked by windows beneath bracketted canopy; 3-light casement to 1st floor and 2 slits in gable. Cottages linking each gable have segmentally-arched doors and 3-light casements to each floor divided by floor band (no 96, adjoining institute, has been altered). Panelled brick ridge stacks. Included for Group Value.
Listing NGR: SD6660802558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213546
- 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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