Listed buildings in Tyldesley

Tyldesley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It contains several listed buildings designated by English Heritage and included in the National Heritage List for England. Most are listed at Grade II, the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".^[1]

The town's listed buildings reflect its history. Three ancient halls in the south and east, Damhouse, Chaddock and Garrett, remain from when Tyldesley was a scattered rural settlement before it developed into an industrial town after 1800. Two places of worship, Top Chapel and the parish church were built as the town's population began to increase as was the former St George's School, built as a national school in the 1820s of which only its stone-built façade remains. Nikolaus Pevsner describes Tyldesley as "a small industrial town of parallel brick streets"^[2] and considers its best building is the "handsome former Union Bank of Manchester" on Elliott Street.^[3]

In the United Kingdom "listed building" refers to a building or structure designated as being of special architectural, historical, or cultural significance. They are categorised in three grades: Grade I consists of buildings of outstanding architectural or historical interest, Grade II* includes significant buildings of more than local interest and Grade II consists of buildings of special architectural or historical interest. Buildings in England are listed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on recommendations provided by English Heritage, which also determines the grading.^[1]

Key

Buildings and structures

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes	Grade
Chaddock Hall 53°30′19″N 2°26′14″W / 53.5052°N 2.4372°W / 53.5052; -2.4372 (Chaddock Hall)		17th century, l8th century and 19th century alterations	Chaddock Hall is a brick and timber-framed house that has been rendered over. It is of two-storeys on a T-shaped plan with an 18th-century range under a slate roof. A datestone at the rear is inscribed "T.C. 1698" (Thomas Chaydock) and a lead rainwater-head is dated "S.C. 1780".[4]	B !II
Barn at Chaddock Hall 53°30′17″N 2°26′09″W / 53.5048°N 2.4359°W / 53.5048; -2.4359 (Barn at Chaddock Hall)		17th century, l8th century and 19th century alterations	The barn at Chaddock Hall is constructed mostly in English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and quoins on a stone plinth. It had opposed cart entries with cambered brick arches and one wall has a carved stone coat of arms.[5]	B !II
Garden wall and stone gate piers Chaddock Hall 53°30′17″N 2°26′11″W / 53.5047°N 2.4363°W / 53.5047; -2.4363 (Garden wall and stone gate piers Chaddock Hall)		17th century, l8th century and 19th century alterations	Chaddock Hall's garden walls are built in English garden wall bond brick and its stone gate piers to Chaddock Lane have raised panels and moulded bases, collars and capitals. The gates are made of cast-iron.[6]	B !II
138 Elliot Street 53°30′50″N 2°28′07″W / 53.5139°N 2.4686°W / 53.5139; -2.4686 (138 Elliot Street)		1830	The two-storey house is built in red brick in Flemish bond with a Welsh slate roof. It fronts directly to the street and has two stone steps to central door flanked by fluted side pilasters and a fanlight with radial glazing bars under segmental brick arch. The bays have 16-pane sash windows under flat arches.[7]	B !II
151 Elliot Street, former bank 53°30′51″N 2°28′08″W / 53.5141°N 2.4688°W / 53.5141; -2.4688 (151 Elliot Street former bank)		1900	The single-storey bank, now offices, was built on a corner site to the designs of F W Morton. It is constructed in sandstone ashlar with a glazed roof. It has a three-bay front and two-bay left return facing Patchett Street. Its Classical facade has Doric order columns supporting a dentilled cornice and balustraded parapet on a plinth with pedestals. Its central doorway is under a frieze with 'BANK' in raised letters above which is the coat of arms of the Union Bank of Manchester. At either side are windows in rusticated surrounds with keystones.[8]	B !II
Drinking Fountain 53°30′51″N 2°28′03″W / 53.5141°N 2.4676°W / 53.5141; -2.4676 (Drinking Fountain)		1892	The drinking fountain designed in the Gothic Revival style has a square shaft on stone steps. On each face are niches one bearing the inscription: "Donated by John Buckley 1812-1892". Narrow decorative columns support gablets bearing coats of arms and a square tapering shaft takes the place of a roof.[9]	B !II
St George's Church 53°30′47″N 2°28′16″W / 53.513°N 2.471°W / 53.513; -2.471 (St George's Church, Tyldesley)		1821 - 4	St. George's Church is a Commissioners' Church designed by Sir Robert Smirke and consecrated in 1825. It is built in the Early English style in sandstone ashlar. It has a nave with a clerestory and north and south aisles a west tower with an octagonal spire, a chancel and vestry.[10]	B !II
Tyldesley Top Chapel 53°30′47″N 2°28′01″W / 53.513°N 2.467°W / 53.513; -2.467 (Tyldesley Top Chapel)		1789	The chapel was built in 1789 for the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion in Flemish bond brick. It has a gabled front with a bellcote and two panelled doors between which on each floor are Venetian style windows with leaded glass.[11]	B !II
Garrett Hall 53°30′37″N 2°26′34″W / 53.5102°N 2.4428°W / 53.5102; -2.4428 (Garrett Hall)		17th century	Garrett Hall is a 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse which was largely rebuilt in brick in the 18th and 19th centuries and subsequently rendered. It was formerly a manor house and home of the Tyldesley family. It is of two storeys on a T-shaped plan with brick chimney stacks and a slate roof.[12]	B !II
7 Sale Lane 53°30′47″N 2°26′46″W / 53.513°N 2.446°W / 53.513; -2.446 (7 Sale Lane)		1685	The gable-fronted house is built from hammer-dressed stone with a slate roof and a brick-built extension. It has stone mullion windows, quoins and a round window in the gable.[13]	B !II
109 Sale Lane 53°30′50″N 2°26′31″W / 53.514°N 2.442°W / 53.514; -2.442 (109 Sale Lane)		Late 17th century	The two-storey house is built in English garden wall bond brick with stone quoins under a slate roof which replaced the original thatch.[14]	B !II
Stone built portion of St Georges School 53°30′47″N 2°28′12″W / 53.513°N 2.470°W / 53.513; -2.470 (Stone built portion of St Georges School)		1829.	The facade of the former St Georges School is built in dressed sandstone and has a slate roof. It comprises two storeys and seven bays in a Gothic revival style. The doorways at either end (one blocked) have pointed arches and the windows Y-tracery. A carved plaque reads, "Tyldsley Church Schools MDCCCIX rebuilt and enlarged MDCCCLVIII".[15]	B !II
Telephone Kiosk 53°30′50″N 2°28′04″W / 53.5138°N 2.4677°W / 53.5138; -2.4677 (Telephone Kiosk)		1935 (designed)	The red K6 telephone kiosks were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The kiosks were manufactured in cast iron by various contractors. The kiosk has a square plan, a domed roof and the top panels are decorated with unperforated crowns.[16]	B !II
Damhouse 53°30′11″N 2°27′22″W / 53.503°N 2.456°W / 53.503; -2.456 (Damhouse)		1650	Damhouse or Astley Hall was the manor house for Astley though it is inside the Tyldesley boundary. It was used as the administration block for Astley Hospital. Since 1991 Morts Astley Heritage Trust has renovated it for office use and tea room.[17] The house is built of rendered brick with stone details and a slate roof. The three-storey frontage has five unequal bays with stone mullioned windows and crosswing gables. The central three-storey porch bay has a studded oak door with Doric columns, pediment and a fanlight. The frontage is largely as built but the plaque over the door is a 20th-century replacement. The east wing dating from the early 19th century is of rendered brick and has a chapel on the first floor.[18] Restoration in 1999-2000 discovered the attic contained a "short" long gallery that had subsequently been subdivided.[19]	B !II*

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Bibliography

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Pollard, Richard; Sharples, Joseph (2006), Buildings of England: Liverpool and the southwest, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10910-5