17-33, DICCONSON STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a block of twelve early to mid-19th century townhouses, located on Dicconson Street, Wigan, and including numbers 1, 3, and 5 Upper Dicconson Street. The block incorporates numbers 17 to 33 on Dicconson Street, with numbers 17, 19, and 21 currently used as offices, numbers 23 and 25 as a shop, and numbers 27 to 33 along with 1, 3 and 5 Upper Dicconson Street also as a shop. At the time of inspection in June 1992, numbers 27 to 31 were unoccupied.

The houses are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. The building has an obtuse-angled plan on a corner site, creating a double-depth arrangement with each house having a single front. A wagon entrance is situated between numbers 27 and 29, and there are various rear extensions. The design is in a Georgian style.

The block is three stories high, with cellars beneath, and generally has two windows to each house, except for number 27 and numbers 1 and 5 Upper Dicconson Street, which have three. Features include a stone plinth, a first-floor sillband with six ramps, a plain frieze, and a 20th-century gutter cornice. The facade is regular, with a wide, semi-elliptical-headed doorway to the right of each house. These doorways have gauged brick heads, set-in Tuscan doorcases, doors with two round-headed raised panels, and plain fanlights. The Dicconson Street facade has 12-pane sashed windows on all floors, although some are unhorned and mostly renewed, while those in Upper Dicconson Street are sashed without glazing bars, with blind windows on the upper floors of the return of number 33. All windows have raised sills and wedge lintels, except for those on the second floor. A semi-elliptical-headed wagon archway is located to the left of number 27. Numbers 17 to 25 have ridge chimneys to the left, while the others have lost their chimneys.

The interiors have been largely remodelled. The building forms a group with number 7 Upper Dicconson Street.