48, MILLGATE
48, MILLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384499
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 48, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 48, MILLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384499
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 48, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, MILLGATE
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:
- 48, MILLGATE
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 58392 05614
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW MILLGATE
24-1/7/49 (East side)
12/11/75 No.48
GV II
Town house, now shop. Late C17 with mid C18 refronting and
remodelling, subsequently further altered and probably
reduced. Probably for Alexander Radcliffe. Handmade red brick
in Flemish bond with sandstone plinth and dressings, slate
roof with cut-down C20 brick chimneys. Double-depth
double-fronted plan. Georgian.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar (but probably originally 3
storeys), 5 windows, symmetrical; with a chamfered plinth,
rusticated quoins and C19 gutter on brackets. Central doorway
with good pedimented doorcase of engaged Ionic columns with
dentilled cornice and modillioned pediment; sashed windows
without glazing bars at ground floor, unhorned 12-pane sashes
at 1st floor, all with raised sills and wedge lintels which
have raised keystones and voussoirs. East gable wall with
remains of brick drip moulds and bands.
INTERIOR: good C18 staircase, half-turn with landing, with cut
string, scrolled brackets, 3 slim turned balusters per tread,
and ramped moulded handrail; at 1st floor, fielded panel
doorcases, and similarly panelled reveals to windows of
right-hand front room (with window seats); in rear right-hand
room a beam with quarter-round moulding (unstopped) and a
fireplace with shouldered surround.
HISTORY: probably the house built for Alexander Radcliffe,
Mayor of Wigan in 1771, 1776 and 1779, shown in a watercolour
painting by Thomas Whitehouse, 1826, now displayed in Wigan
Local History Library.
Listing NGR: SD5839205614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484933
- 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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