Griffin Hotel
GRIFFIN HOTEL, 94, STANDISHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384517
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Griffin Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GRIFFIN HOTEL, 94, STANDISHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384517
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Griffin Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIFFIN HOTEL, 94, 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:
- GRIFFIN HOTEL, 94, 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 58409 06084
Details
WIGAN
SD5806SW STANDISHGATE
24-1/6/137 (North West side)
No.94
Griffin Hotel
GV II
Public house. Dated 1905 over doorway; altered. By Heaton and
Ralph of Wigan. Red brick in English garden wall bond with
dressings of red and buff terracotta, hipped green slate roof.
Double-depth double-fronted plan. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays, symmetrical; the ground
floor faced with square tiles and finished with a moulded
cornice, and the outer bays of the upper floors featured with
giant Ionic semi-columns (banded buff and red) and modillioned
semicircular pediments. At ground floor the centre bay has a
wide splayed segmental archway with a keystone and Vitruvian
scroll enrichment to the lintel which is lettered "19" to the
left and "05" to the right, containing a depressed-arched
doorway framed by panelled pilasters, and the outer bays each
have a pair of transomed rectangular windows with pilastered
surrounds, divided triple keystones, engraved plate-glass and
brattished transoms. Above the doorway is a prominent
wrought-iron bracket with a lamp. At 1st floor the centre has
a transomed 3-light window framed by terracotta columns and a
cornice with curved upstand lettered "OB LD.", to the left of
this window a very large and prominent wrought-iron bracket
with scrolled enrichment displaying a large signboard painted
with a griffin, a white-tiled frieze lettered "GRIFFIN HOTEL"
and a prominent modillioned eaves cornice, above which is a
flat-roofed 3-light dormer. The pediment outer bays have
segmental 3-light oriels at 1st floor with brattished
transoms, casement windows and shaped parapets, and the 2nd
floor has 2-light sashes. A good example of its type and date.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5840906084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484951
- 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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