Former Midland Bank
1, 3, 5 AND 5A, LIBRARY STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
GV
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484915
- 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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