FORMER MIDLAND BANK

1, 3, 5 AND 5A, LIBRARY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384481
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER MIDLAND BANK
Statutory Address:: 1, 3, 5 AND 5A, LIBRARY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384481
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER MIDLAND BANK
Statutory Address 1:: 1, 3, 5 AND 5A, LIBRARY STREET
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER MIDLAND BANK, 1 AND 3, WALLGATE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, 3, 5 AND 5A, LIBRARY STREET
Statutory Address:: FORMER MIDLAND BANK, 1 AND 3, WALLGATE

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 58244 05631

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2017

SD 5805 NW, 24-1/7/27

WIGAN, LIBRARY STREET (south-west side), Nos. 1, 3, 5 AND 5A, Former Midland Bank

(Formerly Listed as: LIBRARY STREET (South West side) Nos. 1, 3, 5 AND 5A (Midland Bank, including Nos 1 and 3))

29/01/98

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II

Includes: Nos.1 and 3 Midland Bank WALLGATE. Showrooms and offices, now bank and shop units. 1895. By WEV Crompton of Wigan, for Timothy Coop and Company. Ground floor altered 1910 by T B Whinney of London. Red brick in Flemish bond, the ground floor rebuilt in sandstone ashlar; with pink and buff terracotta dressings, slate mansard roof with lead-clad dome. Corner site, with long frontage to Library Street and narrow facade to Wallgate linked by convex corner. Free Queen Anne style. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic. The 1910 facade to the ground floor, carried round both facades, has paired Tuscan semi-columns, plain frieze and prominent modillioned cornice, a corner doorway with moulded architrave including a festoon frieze and cornice, and rectangular windows in the other bays. On the upper floors the architectural centre consists of the three bays wrapping round the corner, where a drum to the corner is clasped by Dutch gables: it has brick pilasters at 1st floor with terracotta Ionic capitals, a dentilled terracotta frieze and moulded cornice carried round, banded Dutch gables, and a drum with terracotta frieze enriched with festoons, surmounted by an unusual bell-shaped dome; Venetian windows at 1st floor with terracotta colonnettes, run-out voussoirs and triple keystones, and oblong windows at 2nd floor with blocked jambs and triple keystones; and stepped triple-light windows in the gables. Side ranges similar but simpler. INTERIOR not inspected. Occupies key site at south end of triangular Market Place, forming focal point at top of Library Street and Wallgate.

Listing NGR: SD5824405631

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Legacy System number:: 484915
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.