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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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