Description

WIGAN

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

GV II

Two shops with offices over. Dated 1906 on gable
jetty-bressumer; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton. Red brick in
English garden wall bond with sandstone dressings and some
timber-framing, red tiled roof. Rectangular plan at
right-angles to street. C16 vernacular style.
3 storeys and 2 bays. The ground floor has two C20 shop
fronts. The 1st floor has large rectangular windows of 2 and 3
lights, and a concave frieze with pseudo triple keystones over
the windows. The 2nd floor has slightly-jettied ornamental
timber framing including shallow canted 8-light oriels with
leaded glazing, gables with brattished jetty-bressumers
lettered "1906" and oversailing bargeboarded verges with
finials. INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with No.34 (qv) adjoining to the left, and Nos 26
to 32 (qv) adjoining that, being a continuation of the same
scheme.

Listing NGR: SD5823805728

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664325

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)