27 and 29 Wallgate, Including 2, 4 and 6 King Street

2, 4 and 6, King Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384546
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: 27 and 29 Wallgate, Including 2, 4 and 6 King Street
Statutory Address:: 2, 4 and 6, King Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384546
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: 27 and 29 Wallgate, Including 2, 4 and 6 King Street
Statutory Address 1:: 2, 4 and 6, King Street
Statutory Address 2:: 27 and 29, 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:: 2, 4 and 6, King Street
Statutory Address:: 27 and 29, 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 58215 05561

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 February 2024 to update the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards

SD 5805 NW, 24-1/7/95

WIGAN, WALLGATE (East side), No 27 and 29

(Formerly listed as: No. 27, Public House, previously listed as: Blairs Public House; previously listed as: WALLGATE Minorca Hotel)

11/07/83

GV II

Includes: Nos. 2, 4 AND 6 KING STREET.

Inn, now public house, probably of around 1820, altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), some sandstone and buff terracotta dressings, hipped slate roof; ground floor of front range now faced with square tiles and painted. 27-29 L-plan on corner site.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and five windows (to Wallgate); with a plain cornice to ground-floor, plain frieze and oversailing eaves. The ground floor has a segmental-headed doorway to the fourth bay in a Tuscan doorcase with modillioned cornice and blocking course, flanked by 12-pane fixed windows with glazed terracotta surrounds, pilastered "shop" window in the first two bays, and a splayed corner to the right with a 15-pane fixed window. The first floor has recessed segmental-headed 12-pane sashed windows with stepped surrounds, the second floor has 9-pane sashes, all these windows unhorned and with projecting sills. The five-window right-hand return (to King Street) has similar fenestration to the upper floors, a doorway flanked by tripartite fixed windows at ground floor; and beyond these a segmental-headed wagon archway with rusticated quoined surround.

Nos 2, 4 and 6 King Street are a three-window continuation of this range, matching it except at ground floor which has a shop front with a recessed doorway flanked by plate-glass windows with consoles to the fascia. Rear and INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5821505561

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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.