Description

WIGAN

SD50NE WALLGATE
24-1/2/105 Bridge Warehouse at east end of
25/07/78 Leeds-Liverpool Canal Basin

II

Canal warehouse, now offices. 1777, for the Leeds-Liverpool
Canal Company; rebuilt 1984 by MS Churchward for AL Gibson.
Coursed squared sandstone with punch-dressed quoining, slate
roof. Rectangular double-pile plan on east-west axis, bridging
the canal.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over shipping-hole basement, with a
twin-gabled front facing along the canal, 2:2 windows. The
shipping holes have coupled semi-circular arches with plain
voussoirs. Above and flanking them are former loading slots of
3, 2, 2 and 3 stages with punch-dressed quoins and lintels,
the openings at basement level of the outer bays now doorways
and the others altered as windows; and in each gable is a
small lunette. Coped gables; downspout from central valley.
The left (north) side has a central 2-stage loading slot
(altered as windows) flanked by one and 2 windows at basement
level and 2 pairs of windows above; the right-hand (south)
side has 2-stage loading slots (now windows) flanking
2 windows on each floor; the rear (overlooking a
semicircular-ended basin) has 2 windows at ground floor
aligned below the outermost of 4 windows at 1st floor, and
2 lunettes in the gables like those at the front.
INTERIOR remodelled.

Listing NGR: SD5777805265

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664384

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