The Nunnery
THE NUNNERY, 166 AND 168, ORRELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287182
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Nunnery
- Statutory Address:
- THE NUNNERY, 166 AND 168, ORRELL ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15308/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287182
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Nunnery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NUNNERY, 166 AND 168, ORRELL 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:
- THE NUNNERY, 166 AND 168, ORRELL 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 53732 05011
Details
ORRELL ORRELL ROAD SD 50 SW (north side) 4/101 Nos. 166 and 168 30.3.66 (The Nunnery) G.V. II 2 houses. Early C19. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings, felted roof, possibly stone slate. 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays. Base, quoins, cornice and coped gables, that to left with ball finials. Windows have plain surrounds and are sashed with glazing bars; but 2nd bay of ground floor has paired windows with single-bar sashes. 3 gabled roof dormers with small-paned round-headed lights and side lights. Round-headed recess to right of 1st floor window to 3rd bay. Round-headed entrance to 4th bay has fanlight with glazing bars and paired half-glazed doors. 5 cross-axial stacks. Hexagonal cupola on Tuscan columns to right-hand end. Left return has round-headed entrance and stair window. Right return has blocked large elliptical-headed entrance; sashed window and windows with horizontally- sliding sashes to 1st floor. Top clock face with flanking lozenge vents. Rear similar; dormers with horizontaly sliding sashes. Believed to be school run by nuns from The Mount (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5373205011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403038
- 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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