Former Yorkshire Bank
FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, 22, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384544
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, 22, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384544
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, 22, 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:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, 22, 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 58200 05624
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/94 (West side)
No.22
Former Yorkshire Bank
GV II
Bank, now betting office with offices over. Dated 1884 on
pediment over corner; by Isitt and Verity; ground floor
altered 1908 by Greenwood of Manchester; slightly altered in
C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings,
ground floor mostly rebuilt in Jurassic limestone; green slate
mansard roof. Trapeziform plan on acutely-angled corner site.
Free Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, with a featured one-window
corner and 2-window returns; with a granite plinth, channelled
ashlar ground floor with plain frieze and moulded cornice;
very prominent coved eaves cornice with carved festoons of
fruit, interrupted by attic gables at the corner and in the
2nd bay of each return. At ground floor the corner has a
round-headed doorway flanked by enriched Ionic columns with
prominent foliated consoles carrying a segmental canopy; the
2nd bay to the Wallgate facade (unaltered in 1908) has a large
doorway with carved sandstone surround including a large
oeil-de-boeuf overlight; otherwise, rectangular windows with
plain C20 glazing. On the upper floors, the featured corner
has a bowed mullion-and-transom oriel at 1st floor with
balustraded parapet, a 6-light mullion-and-transom window at
2nd floor, a 2-light attic window in a gable with swan-neck
pediment monogrammed "1884", and a pavilion roof behind this.
The right-hand return (to Wallgate) has a cross-window and a
large canted oriel at 1st floor, mullion-and-transom windows
at 2nd floor, and a 2-light attic window in a gable with
carved pediment; the left return has coupled windows in place
of the oriel but is otherwise similar.
INTERIOR not inspected. The offices were not occupied at the
time of the survey. Makes important contribution to
streetscape in close proximity to Church of All Saints (qv),
grouping also with Bees Knees Public House to left (qv), and
with Nos 12 to 20 (qv) adjoining to the right.
Listing NGR: SD5820005624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484979
- 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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