THE RAVEN HOTEL

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
List Entry Name:: THE RAVEN HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE

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Official list entry

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

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:: THE RAVEN HOTEL, 5, WALLGATE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484976
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.