Building Name

Raven Hotel 5 Wallgate Wigan

Date
1904
Street
Wallgate
District/Town
Wigan
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New Build
Listed
Grade II

LISTING TEXT - Public house. Dated 1904 at 2nd floor; by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton; slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Narrow elongated plan at right-angles to street. Edwardian Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over cellars, 2 very unequal bays, with a prominent cornice over the ground floor, another cornice over the 2nd floor with egg-and-dart enrichment, a shaped parapet with centre panel lettered '1904" and above this a very large semi-circular pediment containing a painted raven in relief with raised lettering "RAVEN HOTEL", flanked by large ball finials. The ground floor has a doorway to the left under a pedimented concave upstand lettered "RAVEN HOTEL",  and a 4-light window to the right, all these openings in a continuous stone architrave, with  brackets to the cornice over the window. On the upper floors there are one-light windows to the narrow bay above the door, and a wide 2-storey canted oriel to the other bay, with stone mullions, wooden transoms and a moulded cornice. INTERIOR: glazed pale green wall tiling with Art Nouveau foliation; mahogany panelled bar and partitions (some interrupted or removed); Jacobean-style staircase.