26, 27, 30 AND 32, MARKET PLACE (See details for further address information)

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D5805NW 24-1/7/36

WIGAN MARKET PLACE (North side) No 26-32 (even)

(Formerly listed as Nos.26, 27, 30 AND 32, previously listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.26-38 (Even))

11/07/83

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-5 MARKET STREET.

Block of five shops with offices over. Dated 1904 on gable jetty-bressumer; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton; slightly altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, some timber-framing, and red tiled roof. Curved round corner site. Eclectic style combining Edwardian Baroque with C16 vernacular timber-framing.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, 3+3+3 bays as a whole, in a symmetrical composition centred on the three-bay curved corner. The ground floor has altered shop fronts mostly with plain frieze and moulded cornice; the first floor has windows with blocked columnar architraves (two, two and three lights to Market Street, one, one and two lights to the corner, three, two and two lights to Market Place), banded piers between the windows with carved panels in the topmost band.

At second floor the corner is featured with a central Baroque turret which has tourelles, a round-headed window with blocked colonnettes, run-out voussoirs and a keystone carried up to the scalloped corbel of an octagonal upper stage with ogival domed roof and tall finial; and flanked by transomed six-light windows in the outer bays.

The side ranges are featured with slightly jettied ornamental timber-framing including a shallow canted eight-light oriel in each bay (those to Market Place with original wooden mullions and transoms, and leaded glazing with coloured tear-drop junctions, but those to Market Street replaced), and gables with brattished jetty bressumers lettered "1904" and oversailing bargeboarded verges with and finials. Tall brick ridge chimneys with stone cornices.

INTERIOR not inspected.

Forms group with No.34 (qv) and Nos 36 and 38 (qv) in matching style to the right.

Listing NGR: SD5827405672