47, KING STREET
47, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384478
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 47, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 47, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384478
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 47, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47, 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:
- 47, 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 58304 05429
Details
WIGAN
SD5805SW KING STREET
24-1/8/24 (South West side)
11/07/83 No.47
GV II
Former Wigan Savings Bank, undergoing conversion at time of
inspection (June 1992). 1891, by H Verity; altered. Sandstone
ashlar facade, side and rear of yellow stock brick, slate roof
concealed by parapet. Rectangular plan at right-angles to
street. Italian palazzo style.
2 storeys (with basement to rear), 1:3 bays; rusticated ground
floor with alternate courses vermiculated, Corinthian columns
at 1st floor (paired either side of 1st bay and at right-hand
corner), plain frieze, dentilled and modillioned cornice and
balustraded parapet. The 1st bay has a square-headed doorway
(up 4 steps) and narrow side windows in a tripartite
architrave with a pediment over the doorway containing a
carved shield, and a Venetian window at 1st floor; the other
bays have square-headed windows at ground floor (boarded at
time of inspection) with vermiculated voussoirs and cartouche
keystones, and round-headed windows at 1st floor with
balustrading. Sturdy cast-iron railings at right-angles to
left of entrance.
INTERIOR: remodelling in progress at time of survey (June
1992).
Listing NGR: SD5830405429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484912
- 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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