Public House

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SD 5805 NW, 24-1/7/95

WIGAN, WALLGATE (East side), No 27 and 29

(Formerly listed as: No. 27, Public House, previously listed as: Blairs Public House; previously listed as: WALLGATE Minorca Hotel)

11/07/83

GV II

Includes: Nos. 2, 4 AND 6 KING STREET.

Inn, now public house, probably of around 1820, altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), some sandstone and buff terracotta dressings, hipped slate roof; ground floor of front range now faced with square tiles and painted. 27-29 L-plan on corner site.

EXTERIOR: three storeys and five windows (to Wallgate); with a plain cornice to ground-floor, plain frieze and oversailing eaves. The ground floor has a segmental-headed doorway to the fourth bay in a Tuscan doorcase with modillioned cornice and blocking course, flanked by 12-pane fixed windows with glazed terracotta surrounds, pilastered "shop" window in the first two bays, and a splayed corner to the right with a 15-pane fixed window. The first floor has recessed segmental-headed 12-pane sashed windows with stepped surrounds, the second floor has 9-pane sashes, all these windows unhorned and with projecting sills. The five-window right-hand return (to King Street) has similar fenestration to the upper floors, a doorway flanked by tripartite fixed windows at ground floor; and beyond these a segmental-headed wagon archway with rusticated quoined surround.

Nos 2, 4 and 6 King Street are a three-window continuation of this range, matching it except at ground floor which has a shop front with a recessed doorway flanked by plate-glass windows with consoles to the fascia. Rear and INTERIOR altered.

Listing NGR: SD5821505561