The Elms
THE ELMS, WIGAN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384572
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address:
- THE ELMS, WIGAN LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384572
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ELMS, 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:
- THE ELMS, 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 58359 07182
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE WIGAN LANE
24-1/2/123 (West side)
24/10/51 The Elms
II
Villa, now Health Authority offices and nursing school.
c1820-40, altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with
sandstone plinth and dressings, hipped slate roof.
Double-depth double-fronted main range with large service wing
to rear. Late Georgian style.
2 storeys and cellars, 2:1:2 windows, symmetrical, the centre
breaking forwards slightly; with a plinth, 1st-floor sillband,
plain frieze, moulded cornice, and blocking course stepped up
in the centre. Square porch with Tuscan columns and pilasters,
plain frieze, moulded cornice and lead-clad blocking course;
square-headed doorway with C20 double doors and deep 4-pane
overlight. Unhorned 12-pane sashed windows on both floors,
with wedge lintels. Pair of ridge chimneys flanking the
centre. Generally similar fenestration in return sides. (C20
garage now attached to right-hand corner.) Rear service wing
of 3 storeys to the same height.
INTERIOR: doglegged staircase with 2 elaborate cast-iron
balusters per tread; in front left room, a good moulded
plaster cornice with bead-and-reel, stiff-leaf and scrolled
foliated enrichment; otherwise, altered.
Listing NGR: SD5835907182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485007
- 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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