Former Royal Bank of Scotland
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 30 AND 32, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384549
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Bank of Scotland
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 30 AND 32, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384549
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Bank of Scotland
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 30 AND 32, 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 ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 30 AND 32, 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 58176 05593
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/12/17
SD 5805 NW,
24-1/7/98
WIGAN,
WALLGATE (West side),
Nos. 30 and 32,
Former Royal Bank of Scotland
(Formerly Listed as: The Royal Bank of Scotland)
GV
II
Former Bank with chambers above. Dated 1890 on 1st-floor oriel, by
Isitt and Verity; altered at ground floor. Polished grey
granite to ground floor, red brick in Flemish bond with
sandstone dressings above; hipped roof of graduated green
slates. Elongated plan at right-angles to street,
incorporating through-passage to right (access to chambers).
Free Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic, three windows, symmetrical above
ground floor; with cornice to ground floor, brick pilasters to
upper floors, frieze with swags over the pilasters, dentilled
cornice, Dutch gable to centre flanked by tall panelled and
corniced chimneys and pedimented gables to the outer bays. The
ground floor has an arcade of four round-headed windows, the first
three with pulvinated aprons (the 4th formerly a doorway altered
as a window) and a round-headed archway to the passage to the
right, all with stepped voussoirs and moulded keystones, the
windows with altered glazing and the archway with C20 iron
gates. The 1st floor has three large canted mullion-and-transom
oriels, all with arched centre lights, carved aprons,
pulvinated friezes (that in the centre lettered "1890"),
dentilled cornices and balustraded parapets (that in the
centre with a pedimented panel, carved and monogrammed); the
second floor has mullion-and-transom windows with raised stone
surrounds including central pediments with enrichment (that in
the centre semicircular); all these windows with leaded
stained glass in the upper lights. The attic has a
cross-window in the centre and Venetian windows in the outer
gables. The passage walls are faced with glazed buff
terracotta tiling, with a panelled dado and blind arcading
above.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with Head Post Office (qv) adjoining to right, The
Bees Knees Public House (qv) right of that, No.22 (qv)
opposite this, and Nos 12 to 20 (qv) and 6, 8 and 10 (qv)
beyond these; collectively grouped with Church of All Saints
(qv) and War Memorial (qv). Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SD5817605593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484984
- 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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