26-34, KING STREET
26-34, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384477
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 26-34, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26-34, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384477
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 26-34, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26-34, KING 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:
- 26-34, KING 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 58262 05512
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW KING STREET
24-1/7/22 (North East side)
11/07/83 Nos.26-34 (Even)
GV II
Terraced row of 4 town houses (the 1st numbered 26 and 28),
Nos 30 and 32 now offices and the others now shops and
offices. 1851, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house
single-fronted, all with back extensions, and service passages
between Nos 28 and 30, and Nos 32 and 34. Late Georgian style.
3 storeys, 3+2+2+3 windows, formerly symmetrical; with wooden
bracketed eaves. No.34 has been altered at ground and 1st
floors; otherwise, No.26/28 has the doorway to the left and
Nos 30 and 32 have doorways adjoining in the centre of the
range, all round-headed, with altered doors and plain
fanlights, and the service doorways, which are lower, are
likewise round-headed; the 1st 3 have 2-storey canted bay
windows with dentilled wooden cornices and pediments to the
centre, with sashed glazing except at 1st floor of No.26; the
windows above the service doorways are blocked or blind;
otherwise, all the windows are sashed, mostly with glazing
bars (4 panes at No.26, 12 and 9 panes at No.32, and mixed at
No.30). Large chimney stacks on the front and rear slopes at
the junctions of the pairs.
Rear and INTERIORS not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 21 to 25 (qv) opposite, and with Nos 7 to
11 (qv) and 13 and 15 (qv) to the right of that.
Listing NGR: SD5826205512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484911
- 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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