Bridge Warehouse at East End of Leeds-liverpool Canal Basin
BRIDGE WAREHOUSE AT EAST END OF LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BASIN, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384555
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Warehouse at East End of Leeds-liverpool Canal Basin
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE WAREHOUSE AT EAST END OF LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BASIN, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384555
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Warehouse at East End of Leeds-liverpool Canal Basin
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE WAREHOUSE AT EAST END OF LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BASIN, 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:
- BRIDGE WAREHOUSE AT EAST END OF LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BASIN, 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 57778 05265
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE WALLGATE
24-1/2/105 Bridge Warehouse at east end of
25/07/78 Leeds-Liverpool Canal Basin
II
Canal warehouse, now offices. 1777, for the Leeds-Liverpool
Canal Company; rebuilt 1984 by MS Churchward for AL Gibson.
Coursed squared sandstone with punch-dressed quoining, slate
roof. Rectangular double-pile plan on east-west axis, bridging
the canal.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over shipping-hole basement, with a
twin-gabled front facing along the canal, 2:2 windows. The
shipping holes have coupled semi-circular arches with plain
voussoirs. Above and flanking them are former loading slots of
3, 2, 2 and 3 stages with punch-dressed quoins and lintels,
the openings at basement level of the outer bays now doorways
and the others altered as windows; and in each gable is a
small lunette. Coped gables; downspout from central valley.
The left (north) side has a central 2-stage loading slot
(altered as windows) flanked by one and 2 windows at basement
level and 2 pairs of windows above; the right-hand (south)
side has 2-stage loading slots (now windows) flanking
2 windows on each floor; the rear (overlooking a
semicircular-ended basin) has 2 windows at ground floor
aligned below the outermost of 4 windows at 1st floor, and
2 lunettes in the gables like those at the front.
INTERIOR remodelled.
Listing NGR: SD5777805265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484990
- 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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