Former Westwood Estate Office
FORMER WESTWOOD ESTATE OFFICE, 5, RODNEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384509
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Westwood Estate Office
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WESTWOOD ESTATE OFFICE, 5, RODNEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384509
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Westwood Estate Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WESTWOOD ESTATE OFFICE, 5, RODNEY STREET
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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:
- FORMER WESTWOOD ESTATE OFFICE, 5, RODNEY 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 58399 05437
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/11/2017
SD 5805 SW, 24-1/8/58
WIGAN,
RODNEY STREET (South side), No. 5,
Former Westwood Estate Office
(Formerly listed as: Westwood Estate Office)
28/10/97
GV
II
Estate office when surveyed; Probably late C18 or early C19, remodelled in
1896 (dated over doorway). Red brick with freestone and
terracotta dressings; sides and rear of coursed squared
sandstone; slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan with
back extension. Domestic style with Baroque features.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical; with plain
pilasters to both floors, string course over ground floor,
moulded cornice and balustraded parapet over 2nd floor,
steeply-pitched semi-conical roofs over the outer bays with
finials. The centre has an elliptical-arched doorway with
moulded and banded head, frieze lettered "WESTWOOD / ESTATE
OFFICE", and heavy panelled divided doors, framed by an
elaborate renaissance-style architrave with 2 free-standing
columns, moulded cornice and upstand with swan-neck supporters
and lettered plaque including shield and monogram flanked by
date "18" "96"; and at 1st floor a sashed window framed by
simple pilasters. The outer bays have 2-storey canted bay
windows with sashed glazing, those at ground floor with
enrichment similar to that of the doorway. Side-wall chimneys.
The estate office was unoccupied at the time of the survey
(August 1992).
INTERIOR not inspected.
Included for group value with former Town Hall (King Street,
qv).
Listing NGR: SD5839905437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484943
- 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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