The Pagefield Hotel
THE PAGEFIELD HOTEL, GIDLOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Pagefield Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE PAGEFIELD HOTEL, GIDLOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Pagefield Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PAGEFIELD HOTEL, GIDLOW LANE
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 PAGEFIELD HOTEL, GIDLOW LANE
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 57461 06394
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE GIDLOW LANE
24-1/2/15 (West side)
The Pagefield Hotel
II
Hotel, now public house. 1902 (dated in stair window), for
Magee, Marshall & Co; slightly altered. Red brick in English
garden wall bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof. L-plan
formed by main range on corner site to right with rear wing to
left. Free Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 5 bays, with 5-sided corner turrets
corbelled from 1st floor and finished with domes, and
pedimented gables to the 1st, 3rd and 5th bays linked by short
balustrades over the 2nd and 4th, which are slightly set back
above ground floor level. The ground floor, with a chamfered
sillband and a cornice, has a tall doorway with side windows
in the 2nd bay, in a pilastered architrave with an ogival
pediment on the cornice, the pediment and lintel lettered:
"MAGEE MARSHALL & CO / PAGEFIELD / HOTEL";
3 semi-elliptical arched windows to the 3rd bay; and 6-light
mullion-and-transom windows to the other bays. The upper
floors have mostly similar transomed windows, those at 2nd
floor of the end bays in the form of shallow canted oriels;
except the 2nd bay, which has an oeil-de-boeuf with enriched
surround on each floor. Art Nouveau stained glass in upper
lights of windows. Stone plaques beneath 1st-floor windows of
1st and 5th bays lettered: "M.M. & CO LTD". The 2-bay
right-hand return to Gidlow Lane has (inter alia) a 2-storey
canted bay window to the 1st bay, and a doorway to the 2nd bay
protected by an Ionic with balustraded parapet. Left return
and wing simpler, with another doorway.
INTERIOR: much original glazed tiling, that in the lobby of
the Gidlow Lane entrance particularly fine (foliated dado,
tall panels with emblematic female figures, and scallop
tympani; elaborate coffered ceiling; Jacobean-style staircase,
with stair window containing stained glass dated 1902. Some
partition walls removed.
Listing NGR: SD5746106394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484901
- 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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