The Raven Hotel
THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384541
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Raven Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384541
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1997
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Raven Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE
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:
- THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE
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 58232 05629
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/91 (East side)
17/11/97 No.5
The Raven Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
WALLGATE
(East side)
No.5
(The Raven Hotel))
GV II
Public house. Dated 1904 at 2nd floor; by Heaton, Ralph and
Heaton; slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with
sandstone dressings and slate roof. Narrow elongated plan at
right-angles to street. Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over cellars, 2 very unequal bays, with a
prominent cornice over the ground floor, another cornice over
the 2nd floor with egg-and-dart enrichment, a shaped parapet
with centre panel lettered "1904" and above this a very large
semicircular pediment containing a painted raven in relief
with raised lettering "RAVEN HOTEL", flanked by large ball
finials. The ground floor has a doorway to the left under a
pedimented concave upstand lettered "RAVEN HOTEL", and a
4-light window to the right, all these openings in a
continuous stone architrave, with brackets to the cornice over
the window. On the upper floors there are one-light windows to
the narrow bay above the door, and a wide 2-storey canted
oriel to the other bay, with stone mullions, wooden transoms
and a moulded cornice.
INTERIOR: glazed pale green wall tiling with Art Nouveau
foliation; mahogany panelled bar and partitions (some
interrupted or removed); Jacobean-style staircase.
Listing NGR: SD5823205629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484976
- 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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