The Clarence Hotel
THE CLARENCE HOTEL, 40, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384550
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Clarence Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLARENCE HOTEL, 40, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384550
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Clarence Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLARENCE HOTEL, 40, 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 CLARENCE HOTEL, 40, 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 58167 05567
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/99 (West side)
No.40
The Clarence Hotel
GV II
Public house. 1898. By WEV Crompton; slightly altered. Red
brick in Flemish bond with matching terracotta dressings,
slate roof concealed by parapet. Double-depth double-fronted
plan with projecting central porch and long back extension
following curved plot. Artisan Mannerist style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre
projected; with a cornice to ground floor carried round, plain
terracotta sill-and head-bands to the upper floors, prominent
modillioned cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment and
balustraded parapet. The full-height projected centre has an
open porch at ground floor with 2 pairs of polished granite
Tuscan columns carrying a prominent segmental canopy, and a
doorway with moulded surround and panelled double doors; a
mullion-and-transom window at 1st floor with arched centre
light (Venetian style), a wide foliated terracotta panel over
this with raised lettering "CLARENCE / HOTEL" painted gold,
and a large pendant lamp bracket; and a 4-light mullioned
window at 2nd floor. The flanking bays have 2-light windows at
ground floor with pilaster mullions and moulded architraves,
cross-windows at 1st floor, and 2-light windows at 2nd floor.
INTERIOR not inspected. Forms a striking "end-stop" to King
Street when viewed from that direction.
Listing NGR: SD5816705567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484985
- 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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