34, MARKET PLACE
34, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384489
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 34, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 34, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384489
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 34, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, 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:
- 34, 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 58231 05721
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW MARKET PLACE
24-1/7/37 (North side)
11/07/83 No.34
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Nos.26-38 (Even))
GV II
Shop with offices over. Dated 1905 on gable jetty-bressumer;
by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton, as a continuation of Nos 26 to 32
(qv). Red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone
dressings, some timber framing, red tiled roof. Narrow
rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with long back
extension. C16 vernacular style.
3 storeys and one bay; the ground floor has an altered shop
front; the 1st floor has an arcaded window of 3
elliptical-headed lights with blocked colonnette surround; and
the 2nd floor has slightly-jettied ornamental timber framing
almost matching that of Nos 26 to 32, including a 10-light
oriel with Art Nouveau leaded glazing, and a jettied gable
with brattished jetty bressumer lettered "1905", and
oversailing bargeboarded verges with a finial.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with associated Nos 26 to 32 (qv) adjoining to the
left, and Nos 36 and 38 (qv) adjoining to the right, all being
part of the same scheme.
Listing NGR: SD5823205728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484923
- 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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