National Westminster Bank Including Attached Offices
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING ATTACHED OFFICES, 30-32, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253323
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Attached Offices
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING ATTACHED OFFICES, 30-32, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253323
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Attached Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING ATTACHED OFFICES, 30-32, MARKET STREET
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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING ATTACHED OFFICES, 30-32, MARKET STREET
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 65647 00122
Details
The following building shall be added: LEIGH MARKET STREET SD 60 SE (west side) 2/67 Nos 30-32 (National Westminster Bank) including attached offices II Bank and offices. Dated 1908. By J.C.Prestwick. Ashlar Portland limestone, slate roof. 3 storeys with attics; 3:1:3-bay symmetrical facade wrapped round corner entrance; Market St. frontage extends by 1:4 bays. Plinth. Corner bay is channel rusticated and has panelled double doors in architrave with carved keystone and segmental pediment; tall 1st floor window in panel with apron, moulded sill, architrave and frieze block over which cornice breaks forward; 2nd floor oculus framed by festoon of fruit and arched cornice. The flanking 3 bays on each frontage have channel-rusticated piers and apron panels beneath original casements with arched transoms (bay 3 on Railway Road altered). Transomed 1st floor casements in architraves with double keystones and open segmental pediments. Shorter 2nd-floor windows with moulded sills and architraves. Entablature has pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice which breaks forward over corner beneath coped ashlar parapet ornamented by lion's heads and block with wreath. Corniced ashlar ridge stack. Projecting and channel-rusticated link on Market Street facade has blocked round-arched doorway under panel containing architraved windows; cartouche with swags and date '1908' between 1st and 2nd floors; keystone and segmental pediment over 2nd floor window; parapet as corner. Remaining 4 bays have door to right and are generally as rest except 1st floor windows have plain cornices; lower roof has no parapet but has 2 dormer windows; gable copings and corniced end stack to right, matching ridge stack.
Listing NGR: SD6564700122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213553
- 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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