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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 476125
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Bolton Journal' in Bolton Pictorial Series CLXVIII, (1888)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.