No. 72 ST HELENS ROAD
72, ST HELENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356249
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- No. 72 ST HELENS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 72, ST HELENS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356249
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- No. 72 ST HELENS ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72, ST HELENS 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:
- 72, ST HELENS 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:
- SJ 65459 99561
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2017
SJ 69 NE,
6/58
LEIGH,
ST HELENS ROAD (west side)
No. 72
(Formerly listed as: Fairfield Private Hotel)
II
House, hotel when surveyed. c1840. Red brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys
with attics, 3 x 2-bays with 2-storey l-bay wing to rear-right corner and kitchen
wing in angle with main range. Plinth. Open-fronted, central porch has corniced
transom and overlight in keyed archivolt; cornice and blocking course; wide
panelled door within. Outer bays lit by large sashes with glazing bars in
architraves rising from blocks on plinth. 1st floor: band; moulded sill band;
central rounded headed sash with consoles to keyed archivolt; outer windows as below
but smaller. Nosed string course and brackets on consoles beneath corniced eaves
overhang; hipped roof with corniced stacks to side ridges. Wing set back on right
has basket-arched carriage entrance with keystone; sill band to 16-pane sash; hipped
roof. Rear: round-headed sash to stair window; attic windows below eaves. Left
return: inserted French window on left otherwise sashes with glazing bars under
wedge lintels. Right return: bay 1 blind, unequally hung 16-pane sash to ground
floor bay 2. Interior: central hall with contemporary staircase having cast-iron
balustrade. Pilastered marble fireplace in front-left room.
Listing NGR: SJ6545999561
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213554
- 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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