Description

WIGAN

SD50NE NEW MARKET STREET
24-1/2/51 (North West side)
11/07/83 Wigan Hall

GV II

Rectory. 1875-6, by GE Street, for the Bridgeman family;
slightly reduced. Coursed sandstone rubble at ground floor,
timber-framed with brick nogging at 1st floor and plaster in
gables; red tiled roofs, brick chimneys. Irregular double-pile
plan with appearance of hall-and-crosswing type. Late-medieval
style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, approximately 1:3:1 windows, the 1st bay
presented as a gabled wing; plus a set-back gabled one-window
wing to the right; with a chamfered plinth, angle-buttresses
to the gable on the left, a brattished wooden cornice over the
ground floor, coved jettying to the 1st floor of the left
wing, and steeply-pitched roofs with over-hanging eaves and
barge-boarded gable verges. The main range has at ground floor
a moulded segmental-pointed arch to a recessed porch adjacent
to the wing, a similar but smaller inner doorway with a board
door which has elaborate strap-hinges; to the right of the
entrance a buttress with a roundel above containing the
Bridgeman arms; further right 3 stone cross-windows with blind
trefoils in the heads; and at 1st floor small windows of 1, 1
and 2 lights, and a large transomed 10-light gabled window
breaking the eaves. The left wing has a stone-arcaded window
of 4 small cusped lights at ground floor, a wooden transomed
8-light window at 1st floor, and a jettied gable with
herring-bone bracing. Ridge chimney in line with porch, with
tall clustered polygonal shafts and cornicing. Set-back gable
to right in similar style, and attached to that a 1958 range
replacing the former service wing. The left return, in similar
style, has (inter alia) a large bay window with
segmental-headed transomed window of 8 cusped lights under a
tall tiled pitched roof, and a narrow 5-sided oriel at 1st
floor.
Rear: long range, the left half stepped out, with mullioned
and transomed windows at ground floor; the right-hand half
with 3 medieval-style windows and an extruded chimney stack
with tall clustered polygonal shafts; arch-braced
timber-framing at 1st floor of whole range, including a gable
(to the right end of the left half) with a transomed 6-light
window in this and various other small windows.
INTERIOR: large central reception hall with tiled floor
including arms of Bridgeman family (patrons of the living).

Listing NGR: SD5793705918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664336

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]