12-20, WALLGATE
12-20, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384543
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 12-20, WALLGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 12-20, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384543
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- 12-20, WALLGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-20, 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:
- 12-20, 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 58206 05639
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/93 (West side)
25/09/90 Nos.12-20 (Even)
GV II
Row of 5 shops with offices over. 1880, with later
alterations; the shop front of No.20, 1930, by E Pollard & Co
of London. Brick with limestone dressings. Free Italianate
commercial style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, a regular 5-window range; with rusticated
quoins, moulded eaves cornice with console brackets. The
ground floor has altered shop fronts (some of the fascias
believed to conceal original moulded cornices, consoles and
cast-iron barley-sugar columns); except No.20, replaced in Art
Deco style: polished granite frame and fascia (formerly
bearing the business name "ASHTON'S" in squared metal
lettering but recently replaced with "NEWSAGENTS" in similar
lettering), recessed window and deeply-inset glazed door to
right all under frosted glass frieze with etched geometric
motifs and street number in octagonal surround
(a rare survival). Both upper floors have paired windows,
alternately segmental-headed and round-headed with shafts
which have bell bases and foliated capitals, linked by impost
bands and deep sillbands.
Rear: regular 11-window range, mostly unhorned sashes without
glazing bars; 3 chimney stacks on rear slope of roof.
INTERIOR: contains cast-iron partition walls between
ground-floor shop units.
Forms group with Nos 6-10 (Moot Hall Chambers (qv)) adjoining
to the right, and No.22 to left (qv), in a block which makes
an important contribution to the centre of Wigan.
Listing NGR: SD5820605639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484978
- 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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