Premises Occupied By Coral Racing Ltd

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

SD 7109 SE, 797-1/17/227

BOLTON, VICTORIA SQUARE (South side), Premises occupied by Coral Racing Ltd

(Formerly listed as: Premises occupied by Nationwide Building Society)

(Previously listed as: VICTORIA SQUARE Nationwide Building Society)

26/04/74

GV

II

Exchange and library, now offices. 1825-9, by Lane. Ashlar with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with high entablature enriched with laurel wreaths. 5-window range, the outer bays slightly advanced. Giant Ionic columns each side of central bay, and central entrance in moulded architrave with flat entablature (the doorway itself renewed). Windows are 15-pane sashes, with emblems (wreaths, serpents etc.) carved in panels above them. 3-window pedimented returns, with central entrance in right-hand gable. End wall stacks, partially concealed by pedimented gables. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the building was originally designed to house the Exchange and a newsroom with the upper room used until 1847 as a 'Church and King' library, taken over as a library by Bolton Corporation in 1853. In 1871 the Exchange itself ceased operation and the Corporation took over the ground floor also as a library and museum of Natural History. The architect of these changes was Benjamin Hick. (Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series, LXXXIII): 1885-).

Listing NGR: SD7167609112