Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only) is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Mission.
Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only)
- WRENN ID
- nether-minaret-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1999
- Type
- Mission
- Address
- Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only), 44-50, Market Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 581 058
- Coordinates
- 53.54748, -2.63344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance block of the former concert hall, now known as the Queens Hall Methodist Mission, was built in 1906 by the architects Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton. The building is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with stone-coloured dressings and a graduated slate roof. It is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and features a rectangular plan, standing three storeys high with an attic and a two-stage turret.
The façade is symmetrical with a layout of two windows, one window, and two windows. The ground floor has been altered, but it retains giant pilasters at the center, a pulvinated frieze, and a modillioned cornice. The square turret has clasping pilasters and a prominent cornice on its lower stage, topped by a domed Baroque upper stage.
On the first floor, there are tall cross-windows with wooden mullions and transoms, framed by moulded architraves with large keyblocks and open segmental pediments. The central window features Ionic columns, while the others are adorned with festoons. The second floor has simpler architraves with 2-light casements. At the attic level, the turret includes a lunette with a triple keystone, and the outer bays have large pedimented dormers with 3-light casements, all fitted with glazing bars. The building is topped with raised coped gables and gable chimneys, making it a very prominent feature of the street.
Local climate
Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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