Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear, Wigan Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384571
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear
- Statutory Address:
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear, Wigan Lane
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384571
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear, Wigan Lane
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:
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear, Wigan Lane
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 58427 06977
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 September 2021 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD50NE
24-1/2/122
WIGAN
WIGAN LANE (west side)
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with attached kitchen to rear
24/08/94
II
Main entrance block of hospital, architect Thomas Worthington. Dated 1873 on porch; altered and extended. Red brick in Flemish bond with some blue brick, sandstone dressings, slate mansard roofs. T-plan formed by main range facing east with rear wing (housing kitchen). Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: two storeys plus tower, three wide bays, symmetrical: recessed centre with central tower flanked by square wings with gabled centres breaking forwards. Chamfered plinth, chamfered sillbands and four blue brick bands to both floors, and machicolated eaves cornice. The centre has a rectangular porch with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet and two-centred arched doorway with chunky semi-columns which have stiff-leafcaps, an extrados inscribed "OPENED BY THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES JUNE 4, 1873", a hood-mould and a steep gable rising through the parapet with a carved shield in the apex. Above the porch is a two-centred arch with polychrome head containing a window of two arched lights; above this a square tower with a lancet window, machicolation, a clockface under a gablet, and a saddleback roof. The wings each have a rectangular bay window at ground floor and a tall two-centred arched window above, both with three-light sashes. Kitchen wing to rear.
INTERIOR: entrance hall lined with marble tablets listing subscribers.
Listing NGR: SD5842706977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485006
- 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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