Boar's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1975. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Boar's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- carved-bracket-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Boar's Head Public House, Market Place, WN7 1EG
- OS grid reference
- SD 656 002
- Coordinates
- 53.49823, -2.51866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boar's Head Public House is a public house that was rebuilt in 1900, as noted on a decorative cartouche. It is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings and has a green slate roof. The building features four by five bays and stands two storeys tall in an eclectic Baroque style.
The façade includes a projecting plinth, with bands separating the first and second floors, supported by Ionic columns and topped with a coped parapet. The ground floor has semi-circular-arched windows with keystones, archivolts, and casements featuring etched glass. There are panelled doors in the third bay, which are adorned with a fanlight, columns, and flat pilasters that enclose arabesque-enriched spandrel panels.
On the first floor, canted and bow oriel windows are highlighted by terracotta mullions and transoms. The left corner of the building is accentuated by an octagonal lead-covered cupola on columns and scrolls, balanced by a gable on the right that features ball finials and a keyed oculus. The side elevations are similarly treated. The Church Street elevation showcases a boar's head peering through an arabesque surround within the central gable. The building is topped with tall clustered chimney stacks.
Originally, the Boar's Head housed the brewery head offices. The interior remains remarkably complete, retaining many original features including a staircase with turned balusters and a pulvinated frieze on a closed string, original timber and cast-iron fireplaces, Art Nouveau tiles, plaster cornices, and original bar fittings.
Local climate
Boar's Head Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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