Gatehouse To Wigan Hall With Attached Boundary Wall

WIGAN

SD50NE NEW MARKET STREET 24-1/2/52 (North side) 11/07/83 Gatehouse to Wigan Hall with attached boundary wall

GV II

Gatehouse to Wigan Hall, with attached boundary wall. 1875, by GE Street. Coursed sandstone rubble at ground floor and plastered "half-timbering" above, steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with cockscomb ridge tiles, and brick chimneys. L-plan formed by main range parallel to street with rear wing to left. C13 style. 2 storeys and 4 bays, an asymmetric composition in which the 3rd bay is occupied by a full-height open archway with a 4-centred wooden arch, while to its left the 2nd bay has a 2-centred arched doorway with hood-mould (run out) and a 2-light casement at 1st floor offset left, the 1st bay has mullioned 3-light windows on each floor and an outshut to the left, and the 4th bay has a pair of one-light windows at ground floor. The shallow upper floor has ornamental cusped bracing. Tall corniced chimney stack with vertical ribbing at junction of 3rd and 4th bays; similar chimney on rear wing. Rear has (inter alia) a gabled 2-light dormer over the 3rd bay, and tile-hung gable to wing. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5797905865