Gatehouse to Wigan Hall With Attached Boundary Wall
GATEHOUSE TO WIGAN HALL WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, NEW MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384502
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Wigan Hall With Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO WIGAN HALL WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, NEW MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384502
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Wigan Hall With Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO WIGAN HALL WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 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:
- GATEHOUSE TO WIGAN HALL WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 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 57979 05865
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE NEW MARKET STREET
24-1/2/52 (North side)
11/07/83 Gatehouse to Wigan Hall with
attached boundary wall
GV II
Gatehouse to Wigan Hall, with attached boundary wall. 1875, by
GE Street. Coursed sandstone rubble at ground floor and
plastered "half-timbering" above, steeply-pitched hipped tiled
roof with cockscomb ridge tiles, and brick chimneys. L-plan
formed by main range parallel to street with rear wing to
left. C13 style.
2 storeys and 4 bays, an asymmetric composition in which the
3rd bay is occupied by a full-height open archway with a
4-centred wooden arch, while to its left the 2nd bay has a
2-centred arched doorway with hood-mould (run out) and a
2-light casement at 1st floor offset left, the 1st bay has
mullioned 3-light windows on each floor and an outshut to the
left, and the 4th bay has a pair of one-light windows at
ground floor. The shallow upper floor has ornamental cusped
bracing. Tall corniced chimney stack with vertical ribbing at
junction of 3rd and 4th bays; similar chimney on rear wing.
Rear has (inter alia) a gabled 2-light dormer over the 3rd
bay, and tile-hung gable to wing.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5797905865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484936
- 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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