Former County Court
FORMER COUNTY COURT, MAWDSLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388127
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Court
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER COUNTY COURT, MAWDSLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388127
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER COUNTY COURT, MAWDSLEY STREET
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 COUNTY COURT, MAWDSLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71722 09116
Details
BOLTON
SD7109SE MAWDSLEY STREET 797-1/17/153 (West side) 26/04/74 Former County Court (Formerly Listed as: MAWDSLEY STREET County Court)
GV II
County court, later benefit offices, as of 1996 public house and restaurant. 1866-9, by either Thomas Charles Sorby, the County Surveyor (Pevsner), or Reeves, the government's surveyor of County Courts (Bolton Journal). Ashlar, rusticated to ground floor, with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 10-window range. Entrances each side, paired panelled and studded doors, in stressed architraves. Similar architraves to 12-pane iron-framed windows, and all openings have initials 'V.R.'. Superimposed on foliate key-stones. Round arched upper windows with balustrading, Corinthian capitals to engaged shafts carrying scallop moulded arches. Modillion eaves cornice. Rear elevation is brick, with round arched windows at first floor, lighting court room. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series, CLXVIII): 1888-).
Listing NGR: SD7172209116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bolton Journal in Bolton Pictorial Series CLXVIII, (1888)
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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