26-32 Market Place including 1-5 Market Street
1-5, Market Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384488
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 26-32 Market Place including 1-5 Market Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, Market Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384488
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 26-32 Market Place including 1-5 Market Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, Market Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- 26, 28, 30 and 32, Market Place
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:
- 1-5, Market Street
- Statutory Address:
- 26, 28, 30 and 32, Market Place
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 58220 05712
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 May 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
D5805NW
24-1/7/36
WIGAN
MARKET PLACE (North side)
No 26-32 (even)
(Formerly listed as Nos.26, 27, 30 AND 32, previously listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.26-38 (Even))
11/07/83
GV
II
Includes: Nos.1-5 MARKET STREET.
Block of five shops with offices over. Dated 1904 on gable jetty-bressumer; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton; slightly altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, some timber-framing, and red tiled roof. Curved round corner site. Eclectic style combining Edwardian Baroque with C16 vernacular timber-framing.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, 3+3+3 bays as a whole, in a symmetrical composition centred on the three-bay curved corner. The ground floor has altered shop fronts mostly with plain frieze and moulded cornice; the first floor has windows with blocked columnar architraves (two, two and three lights to Market Street, one, one and two lights to the corner, three, two and two lights to Market Place), banded piers between the windows with carved panels in the topmost band.
At second floor the corner is featured with a central Baroque turret which has tourelles, a round-headed window with blocked colonnettes, run-out voussoirs and a keystone carried up to the scalloped corbel of an octagonal upper stage with ogival domed roof and tall finial; and flanked by transomed six-light windows in the outer bays.
The side ranges are featured with slightly jettied ornamental timber-framing including a shallow canted eight-light oriel in each bay (those to Market Place with original wooden mullions and transoms, and leaded glazing with coloured tear-drop junctions, but those to Market Street replaced), and gables with brattished jetty bressumers lettered "1904" and oversailing bargeboarded verges with and finials. Tall brick ridge chimneys with stone cornices.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with No.34 (qv) and Nos 36 and 38 (qv) in matching style to the right.
Listing NGR: SD5827405672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484922
- 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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