5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384534
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384534
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
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:
- 5-15, SWINLEY ROAD
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 58444 06593
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE SWINLEY ROAD
24-1/2/85 (South side)
Nos.5-15 (Odd)
GV II
Terraced row of 6 town houses, now flats. Probably 1876. By G
Heaton of Wigan for the Wigan Land and Building Company;
altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings
of matching red terracotta, and some sandstone (now painted);
sides and rear of common brick; slate roof. Double-depth plan,
each house single-fronted, built in 3 halls-adjoining pairs
with coupled back extensions. Eclectic style combining Gothic
and Arts-and-Crafts features.
EXTERIOR: 2 and a half storeys over cellars, each with 2
1st-floor windows; chamfered stone plinth, stone sills to the
windows, stone lintels to the doorways and to windows at
ground and 1st floors. A symmetrical composition in which each
house has a featured bay with a canted bay window at ground
floor, a 2-light sashed window at 1st floor with
segmental-pointed extrados filled with saw-toothed coursing
and covered by a hood-mould, and a broad gabled half-dormer
with a segmental-pointed window flanked by coupled pilasters
strips rising to an oversailing gable with pargeting in the
apex. Between these bays are coupled square-headed doorways
with moulded pilaster jambs and enriched capitals, and
panelled half-glazed doors with rectangular overlights; above
each doorway is a one-light sashed window with 2-centred
arched extrados, and a segmental-pointed attic window under an
oversailing gable. Over the ground floor runs a terracotta
band with rippled, moulded and nailhead enrichment, carried
round the bays as a frieze; and the 1st floor has an enriched
impost band. Coupled chimney stacks on front slope of roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5844406593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484969
- 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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