The Pagefield Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
The Pagefield Hotel
- WRENN ID
- floating-trefoil-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1999
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Pagefield Hotel, Gidlow Lane, WN6 7AW
- OS grid reference
- SD 574 063
- Coordinates
- 53.55246, -2.64355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pagefield Hotel is a public house that was originally built as a hotel in 1902 for Magee, Marshall & Co. The building has been slightly altered and is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It features an L-plan layout, with the main range located on a corner site to the right and a rear wing to the left, designed in a Free Renaissance style.
The exterior consists of three storeys and five bays, highlighted by five-sided corner turrets that are corbelled from the first floor and topped with domes. The first, third, and fifth bays have pedimented gables, which are connected by short balustrades over the second and fourth bays that are slightly set back above ground floor level. The ground floor includes a chamfered sillband and a cornice, with a tall doorway featuring side windows in the second bay, set within a pilastered architrave topped by an ogival pediment. The pediment and lintel are inscribed with "MAGEE MARSHALL & CO / PAGEFIELD / HOTEL." The third bay has three semi-elliptical arched windows, while the other bays feature six-light mullion-and-transom windows.
On the upper floors, most windows are similar transomed designs, with the second floor end bays presenting shallow canted oriels. The second bay stands out with an oeil-de-boeuf window that has an enriched surround on each floor. The upper lights of the windows contain Art Nouveau stained glass. Stone plaques beneath the first-floor windows of the first and fifth bays are inscribed with "M.M. & CO LTD." The two-bay right-hand return to Gidlow Lane includes a two-storey canted bay window in the first bay and a doorway in the second bay that is protected by an Ionic column and a balustraded parapet. The left return and wing are simpler, featuring another doorway.
Inside, the hotel retains much of its original glazed tiling, particularly notable in the lobby of the Gidlow Lane entrance, which features a foliated dado, tall panels with emblematic female figures, and scallop tympani, along with an elaborate coffered ceiling. The Jacobean-style staircase includes a stair window with stained glass dated 1902. Some partition walls have been removed.
Local climate
The Pagefield Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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