Listed buildings in Golborne

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Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The town, the nearby village of Lowton, and the surrounding countryside contain 13 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area was largely rural until a cotton mill and a colliery opened in the 19th century. These have closed and the area now contains distribution warehouses. The listed buildings include houses and associated structures, farmhouses, farm buildings, a set of stocks, and two churches.

Golborne (go:[l]bə:n) is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 5.4 miles (8.7 km) south-southeast of Wigan, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) northeast of Warrington and 13.8 miles (22.2 km) to the west of the city of Manchester. Combined with the neighbouring town of Lowton, it has a population of 24,041.

The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is named after its largest component town and former county borough, Wigan and includes the towns and villages of Leigh, part of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Ince-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Orrell, Standish, Atherton, Tyldesley, Golborne, Lowton, Billinge, Astley, Haigh and Aspull. The borough was formed in 1974 and is an amalgamation of several former local government districts and parishes. The borough has three civil parishes and lies directly to the west of the City of Salford and southwest of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The local authority is Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council.

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011.

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Grade	Criteria^[1]
II*	Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II	Buildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes	Grade
Lightshaw Hall 53°29′28″N2°34′55″W / 53.49120°N 2.58200°W / 53.49120; -2.58200 (Lightshaw Hall)		16th century	A timber framed farmhouse that was largely rebuilt in brick in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a stone-slate roof, two storeys, three bays, and a lower two-storey wing. Most of the windows are casements, some are mullioned, and in the right return is a horizontally-sliding sash window.^[2]^[3]	II*
Fair House Farmhouse 53°28′24″N2°32′58″W / 53.47330°N 2.54938°W / 53.47330; -2.54938 (Fair House Farmhouse)	—	17th century	The farmhouse is timber framed and rendered, with repairs and extensions in brick, and a slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays, the first bay projecting as a gabled cross-wing. At the rear is a later continuous outshut. The windows are 20th-century replacement casements. Inside is a pair of back-to-back inglenooks and bressumers.^[4]	II
Lawson's Farmhouse and wall 53°28′12″N2°35′53″W / 53.47012°N 2.59798°W / 53.47012; -2.59798 (Lawson's Farmhouse)	—	Mid to late 17th century	A brick farmhouse with a plinth on the right return and a slate roof. There are two storeys, a double-depth plan, and a front of two gabled bays. The doorway has a segmental head, the windows on the front are casements with segmental brick arches, and in the left return are horizontally-sliding sash windows. Inside there is an inglenook and a bressumer, and attached to the front of the house is a wall with round coping stones.^[5]	II
37 Barn Lane 53°28′31″N2°36′16″W / 53.47518°N 2.60443°W / 53.47518; -2.60443 (37 Barn Lane)	—	Late 17th century	A house that incorporates earlier material, it was extended and altered in the 19th century. The house consists of a hall and a west wing, with a rear service wing added in the 19th century. The west wing is timber framed, and was clad in brick in the late 17th century. In the front facing the road are horizontally-sliding sash windows, and the other windows are casements.^[6]^[7]	II
Byrom Hall 53°29′07″N2°34′02″W / 53.48524°N 2.56723°W / 53.48524; -2.56723 (Byrom Hall)		1713	A rendered brick house with bands, a modillion eaves cornice and a slate roof. There are three storeys, a double-depth plan, and three bays. The central doorway has a fanlight and a canopy on enriched brackets. The windows are replacement 20th-century casements with stone sills and keystones.^[8]	II
St Luke's Church, Lowton 53°28′31″N2°34′50″W / 53.47538°N 2.58046°W / 53.47538; -2.58046 (St Luke's Church)		1732	The oldest part of the church is the nave, the transepts date from 1771, alterations were made in 1813, and the chancel probably dates from 1856, the tower from 1862, and a vestry was added in the 20th century. The church is in brick with rusticated quoins, and consists of a nave, north and south transepts, a chancel, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, and contains a round-headed doorway and windows, diagonal buttresses, a clock face, and an embattled parapet. The nave and transepts have round-headed windows with keystones and impost blocks, the south transept has lunette windows, and in the chancel are simple Venetian windows.^[9]^[10]	II
Town Farmhouse 53°28′12″N2°35′56″W / 53.46994°N 2.59890°W / 53.46994; -2.59890 (Town Farmhouse)	—	1740	A brick farmhouse with rendered sides, a slate roof, two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a semicircular arch and a recessed brick panel. The windows are casements with cambered brick arches on the ground floor and segmental arches in the upper floor.^[11]	II
Stocks 53°28′31″N2°34′51″W / 53.47537°N 2.58082°W / 53.47537; -2.58082 (Stocks)	—	1766	The stocks are adjacent to the churchyard wall of St Luke's Church. They consist of two stone posts, tapering towards the top, with Gothic-type moulding. They are grooved and hold timber foot restraints.^[12]	II
Ashton Road Farmhouse 53°29′09″N2°36′21″W / 53.48582°N 2.60591°W / 53.48582; -2.60591 (Ashton Road Farmhouse)	—	Late 18th century	A brick farmhouse, rendered on the sides and rear, with a stone-slate roof, it has two storeys, two bays, a one-bay extension to the left, and rear extensions. The central doorway has a flat hood with a datestone above. The windows are casements with stone sills and segmental brick heads.^[13]	II
Sundial 53°28′31″N2°34′51″W / 53.47536°N 2.58082°W / 53.47536; -2.58082 (Sundial)	—	Late 18th century	The sundial is adjacent to the entrance to the churchyard of St Luke's Church. It is in stone, and consists of a vase-type baluster shaft with a scalloped base, and has a decorative collar including an egg-and-dart band. The dial and gnomon are missing.^[14]	II
Holly House 53°27′38″N2°35′30″W / 53.46055°N 2.59155°W / 53.46055; -2.59155 (Holly House)	—	c. 1830	A brick house with a pyramidal Welsh slate roof, a double-depth plan, two storeys, and a symmetrical front of three bays. There is a central doorway with engaged Doric columns and a fanlight. The windows on the front are sashes, and at the rear is a round-headed stair window and casement windows.^[15]	II
Barn, Town Farm	—	1846	^[16]	II
St Thomas' Church 53°28′44″N2°35′35″W / 53.47883°N 2.59319°W / 53.47883; -2.59319 (St Thomas' Church)		1848–51	The church, designed by Joseph Clarke and built in stages, is in stone with a clay tile roof. It consists of a nave, a south aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel and vestries, and a west tower. The tower has diagonal buttresses, a three-light west window, gabled clock faces, and a pyramidal roof.^[17]^[18]	II

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Historic England, "Lightshaw Hall, Golborne (1261780)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 11 November 2017
Historic England, "Fair House Farmhouse, Golborne (1162964)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Lawson's Farmhouse and attached garden wall, Golborne (1356256)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 November 2017
Historic England, "No. 37 Barn Lane, Golborne (1356245)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Byrom Hall, Golborne (1356257)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Church of St. Luke, Golborne (1162972)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Town Farmhouse, Golborne (1162917)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 November 2017
Historic England, "Village Stocks against St. Luke's churchyard wall, Golborne (1162981)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Ashton Road Farmhouse, Golborne (1162886)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Sundial adjacent to west entrance of Church of St. Luke, Golborne (1068478)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
Historic England, "Holly House, Golborne (1253103)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 November 2017
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Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England-1] Historic England

[FOOTNOTEPollardPevsner2006178–179-2] Pollard & Pevsner (2006), pp. 178–179

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1261780-3] Historic England & 1261780

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162964-4] Historic England & 1162964

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1356256-5] Historic England & 1356256

[FOOTNOTEPollardPevsner2006177-6] Pollard & Pevsner (2006), p. 177

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1356245-7] Historic England & 1356245

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1356257-8] Historic England & 1356257

[FOOTNOTEPollardPevsner2006515-9] Pollard & Pevsner (2006), p. 515

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162972-10] Historic England & 1162972

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162917-11] Historic England & 1162917

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162981-12] Historic England & 1162981

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162886-13] Historic England & 1162886

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1068478-14] Historic England & 1068478

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1253103-15] Historic England & 1253103

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1068476-16] Historic England & 1068476

[FOOTNOTEPollardPevsner2006177–178-17] Pollard & Pevsner (2006), pp. 177–178

[FOOTNOTEHistoric_England1162930-18] Historic England & 1162930

Listed buildings in Golborne

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