Whitesmiths Arms Public House
WHITESMITHS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 86 AND 88, STANDISHGATE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484949
- 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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