Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/12/17

SD 5805 NW,
24-1/7/95

WIGAN, WALLGATE (East side),
No. 27,
Public House

(Formerly listed as: Blairs Public House; previously listed as: WALLGATE Minorca Hotel)

11/07/83

GV

II

Includes: Nos. 2, 4 AND 6 KING STREET.
Inn, now public house and shops. Probably c1820; altered. Red
brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), ground floor of front
range now faced with square painted tiles; some sandstone and
terracotta dressings, hipped slate roof. L-plan on corner
site.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 5 windows (to Wallgate); with a plain
cornice to ground floor, plain frieze and oversailing eaves.
The ground floor has a segmental-headed doorway to the 4th bay
in a Tuscan doorcase with modillioned cornice and blocking
course, flanked by 12-pane fixed windows with glazed buff
terracotta surrounds, pilastered "shop" windows in the 1st 2
bays, and a splayed corner to the right with a 15-pane fixed
window. The 1st floor has recessed segmental-headed 12-pane
sashed windows with stepped surrounds, the 2nd floor has
9-pane sashes (except the 1st, altered), all these windows
with raised sills. The 5-window right-hand return (to King
Street) has similar fenestration to the upper floors, a
doorway flanked by tripartite sashes at ground floor; and
beyond these a segmental-headed wagon archway with rusticated
long-and-short surround. Nos 2, 4 and 6 King Street are a
3-window continuation of this range, matching it except at
ground floor which has shop fronts (one with a recessed
doorway flanked by plate-glass windows with consoles to the
fascia). Rear and INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5821505561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664375

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