WIGAN HALL

WIGAN HALL, NEW MARKET STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384501
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: WIGAN HALL
Statutory Address:: WIGAN HALL, NEW MARKET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384501
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: WIGAN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WIGAN HALL, NEW MARKET STREET

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:: WIGAN HALL, NEW MARKET STREET

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 57937 05918

Details

WIGAN

SD50NE NEW MARKET STREET 24-1/2/51 (North West side) 11/07/83 Wigan Hall

GV II

Rectory. 1875-6, by GE Street, for the Bridgeman family; slightly reduced. Coursed sandstone rubble at ground floor, timber-framed with brick nogging at 1st floor and plaster in gables; red tiled roofs, brick chimneys. Irregular double-pile plan with appearance of hall-and-crosswing type. Late-medieval style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, approximately 1:3:1 windows, the 1st bay presented as a gabled wing; plus a set-back gabled one-window wing to the right; with a chamfered plinth, angle-buttresses to the gable on the left, a brattished wooden cornice over the ground floor, coved jettying to the 1st floor of the left wing, and steeply-pitched roofs with over-hanging eaves and barge-boarded gable verges. The main range has at ground floor a moulded segmental-pointed arch to a recessed porch adjacent to the wing, a similar but smaller inner doorway with a board door which has elaborate strap-hinges; to the right of the entrance a buttress with a roundel above containing the Bridgeman arms; further right 3 stone cross-windows with blind trefoils in the heads; and at 1st floor small windows of 1, 1 and 2 lights, and a large transomed 10-light gabled window breaking the eaves. The left wing has a stone-arcaded window of 4 small cusped lights at ground floor, a wooden transomed 8-light window at 1st floor, and a jettied gable with herring-bone bracing. Ridge chimney in line with porch, with tall clustered polygonal shafts and cornicing. Set-back gable to right in similar style, and attached to that a 1958 range replacing the former service wing. The left return, in similar style, has (inter alia) a large bay window with segmental-headed transomed window of 8 cusped lights under a tall tiled pitched roof, and a narrow 5-sided oriel at 1st floor. Rear: long range, the left half stepped out, with mullioned and transomed windows at ground floor; the right-hand half with 3 medieval-style windows and an extruded chimney stack with tall clustered polygonal shafts; arch-braced timber-framing at 1st floor of whole range, including a gable (to the right end of the left half) with a transomed 6-light window in this and various other small windows. INTERIOR: large central reception hall with tiled floor including arms of Bridgeman family (patrons of the living).

Listing NGR: SD5793705918

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Legacy System number:: 484935
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.