Listing Text

WIGAN

SD5805NW MARKET PLACE
24-1/7/36 (North side)
11/07/83 Nos.26, 27, 30 AND 32
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Nos.26-38 (Even))

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-5 MARKET STREET.
Block of 5 shops with offices over. Dated 1904 on gable
jetty-bressumer; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton; slightly
altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone
dressings, some timber-framing, and red tiled roof. Curved
round corner site. Eclectic style combining Edwardian Baroque
with C16 vernacular timber-framing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3+3+3 bays as a whole, in a symmetrical
composition centred on the 3-bay curved corner. The ground
floor has altered shop fronts mostly with plain frieze and
moulded cornice; the 1st floor has windows with blocked
columnar architraves (2, 2 and 3 lights to Market Street, 1, 1
and 2 lights to the corner, 3, 2 and 2 lights to Market
Place), banded piers between the windows with carved panels in
the topmost band. At 2nd floor the corner is featured with a
central Baroque turret which has tourelles, a round-headed
window with blocked colonnettes, run-out voussoirs and a
keystone carried up to the scalloped corbel of an octagonal
upper stage with ogival domed roof and tall finial; and
flanked by transomed 6-light windows in the outer bays. The
side ranges are featured with slightly jettied ornamental
timber-framing including a shallow canted 8-light oriel in
each bay (those to Market Place with original wooden mullions
and transoms, and leaded glazing with coloured tear-drop
junctions, but those to Market Street replaced), and gables
with brattished jetty bressumers lettered "1904" and
oversailing bargeboarded verges with and finials. Tall brick
ridge chimneys with stone cornices.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with No.34 (qv) and Nos 36 and 38 (qv) in matching
style to the right.

Listing NGR: SD5827405672