WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE

WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 86 AND 88, STANDISHGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384515
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 86 AND 88, STANDISHGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384515
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 86 AND 88, STANDISHGATE

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:: WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 86 AND 88, STANDISHGATE

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 58398 06058

Details

WIGAN

SD5806SW STANDISHGATE 24-1/6/66 (West side) 11/07/83 Nos.86 AND 88 Whitesmith's Arms Public House

II

House, now public house. Probably late C17, enlarged and greatly altered. Handmade brick, the front and left return faced with scored stucco; slate roof and brick chimneys. Now double-depth with back extensions. EXTERIOR: 2-and-a-half storeys, with 4 1st-floor windows and 3 gables; moulded bands over ground and 1st floors (probably covering original brick banding), that over the ground floor now carrying a C20 full-width fascia. At ground floor the left half has a doorway to the left and 2 cross-windows and the right-hand half has a doorway between 2 similar cross-windows, all these windows with C20 leaded glazing. The 1st floor has 3 similar windows; and the attic gables have 4-pane sashes. All the windows have moulded sills and surrounds. Ridge chimney in centre, gable chimney to right. The right-hand return wall has a small blocked segmental-headed window close to the front corner, and three 2-light casements: one at attic level near the front, another at 1st floor level towards the rear, with a brick label over it, and the 3rd in the back extension. INTERIOR: c1700 doglegged staircase from ground floor to attic, with closed string, square newels, turned balusters and broad moulded handrail. Lobby to foot of staircase formed by wattle-and-daub partition. Art Nouveau style bar with mosaic decoration, formerly located in Glasgow. In attic, an upper-cruck roof truss approximately 2m from west gable, with small dorsals carrying the lower of 2 pairs of original purlins; at ground floor, boxing to beams which may conceal originals.

Listing NGR: SD5839806058

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Legacy System number:: 484949
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.