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© Mr Peter Sargeant
IoE Number:
213503
Location:
BOAR'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, MARKET PLACE (east side)
LEIGH, WIGAN, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Peter Sargeant
Date Photographed:
08 March 2001
Date listed:
09 July 1975
Date of last amendment:
27 July 1987
Grade
II
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LEIGH MARKET PLACE
SD 60 SE
(east side)
2/35 Boar's Head Public
House
(formerly listed
with stable
9/7/75 block)
G.V. II
Public house. "Rebuilt 1900 AD" on decorative cartouche. Red
brick with terracotta dressings and green slate roof. 4 x 5
bays with 2 storeys. Eclectic Baroque. Projecting plinth,
first and second floor bands separated by Ionic columns and
a coped parapet. Semi-circular-arched ground floor windows
with keystones archivolts and casements with etched glass.
Panelled doors in bay 3 with fanlight, columns and flat
pilasters which enclose arabesque-enriched spandrel panels.
Canted and bow oriel windows on the first floor with
terracotta mullions and transoms. The left corner is
articulated by an octagonal lead-covered cupola on columns
and scrolls. It is balanced by a gable to the right with
ball finials and a keyed oculus. The side elevations are
treated in a similar manner. The Church Street elevation
bears a boar's head peering through an arabesque surround in
the central gable. Tall clustered chimney stacks. The
building originally housed the brewery head offices. The
interior is remarkably complete and retains many original
features. Staircase with turned balusters and pulvinated
frieze to closed string. Original timber and cast-iron
fireplaces. Art Nouveau tiles. Plaster cornices. Original
bar fittings.