Former Victoria Hotel
FORMER VICTORIA HOTEL, 52, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Victoria Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER VICTORIA HOTEL, 52, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Former Victoria Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER VICTORIA HOTEL, 52, 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 VICTORIA HOTEL, 52, 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 58129 05504
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/12/17
SD 5805 NW,
24-1/7/100
WIGAN,
WALLGATE (west side),
No. 52,
Former Victoria Hotel
(Formerly listed as: Victoria Hotel)
28/10/97
GV
II
Former Hotel. 1894, by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton; altered. Painted
stucco on brick, with painted stone dressings, slate roof
concealed by brick parapet. Wide U-plan formed by double-depth
front range parallel to street with back extensions.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys over cellars, an 8-window range, formerly
symmetrical; with channelled rustication to ground floor,
super-imposed pilasters to the upper floors (coupled to the
outer bays, single to the 3rd and 6th) and broad bands between
the floors; dentilled cornice and rebuilt brick parapet. The
3rd bay has a Tuscan porch with dentilled cornice and
balustraded parapet with ball finials protecting an
elliptical-headed doorway with pilastered surround and
panelled double doors, and the 6th bay has a window replacing
a former doorway (presumably similar to the first); tripartite
windows flanking this former doorway; otherwise, all windows
are sashed without glazing bars (those at ground floor with
stained glass in the upper leaves) and have emphatic moulded
architraves with scrolled feet and dentilled cornices,
vertically linked by panels of curvilinear patterning in the
bands. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with nos. 54 and 56
adjoining to the left (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5812905504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484986
- 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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