34, Market Place

WIGAN

SD5805NW MARKET PLACE 24-1/7/37 (North side) 11/07/83 No.34 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.26-38 (Even))

GV II

Shop with offices over. Dated 1905 on gable jetty-bressumer; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton, as a continuation of Nos 26 to 32 (qv). Red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone dressings, some timber framing, red tiled roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with long back extension. C16 vernacular style. 3 storeys and one bay; the ground floor has an altered shop front; the 1st floor has an arcaded window of 3 elliptical-headed lights with blocked colonnette surround; and the 2nd floor has slightly-jettied ornamental timber framing almost matching that of Nos 26 to 32, including a 10-light oriel with Art Nouveau leaded glazing, and a jettied gable with brattished jetty bressumer lettered "1905", and oversailing bargeboarded verges with a finial. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with associated Nos 26 to 32 (qv) adjoining to the left, and Nos 36 and 38 (qv) adjoining to the right, all being part of the same scheme.

Listing NGR: SD5823205728