Shevington is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The parish contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the villages of Shevington and Gathurst and the surrounding countryside. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through the parish, and the listed buildings associated with it are a bridge, locks, and a lock-keeper's cottage. The other listed buildings are a farmhouse, farm buildings, a public house with a mounting block, and a school and master's house.
The barn is in stone with some brick, quoins, and a slate roof. It has four bays, a cow house with a catslide roof to the north, and a lean-to garage on the south. The building contains barn doors, windows, a datestone, vents, and a pitching hole.[2][3]
The farm building is in brick on a stone plinth, with stone dressings, quoins, a band, and a concrete tile roof. There are two storeys, with external steps leading up to a granary. It contains mullioned windows and doorways, all with keyedlintels, ventilation holes in stone concave-sided diamonds, and a pitching hole.[2][6]
An assembly room was added to the right in the 19th century, and there were later extensions. The building is in millstone grit with stone-slate roofs with some slate, and has two storeys. The original part has three bays, a central round-headed doorway with voussoirs, a giant keystone, and a fanlight. Above it is a canopy with a hipped roof. At the top of the bay is a pedimentedgable and three ball finials. The windows are sashes with wedge lintels. The assembly roof has two bays and sash windows, and in front of it is a two-step mounting block.[7]
A pair of staggered parallel locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. They are in stone, the northern lock has timber gates, and the southern lock has iron gates. There are timber footbridges, and a weir between the two locks.[2][8]
The bridge carries Gathurst Lane (B5206 road) over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It is in stone, and consists of a single elliptical arch with a cambered band, a parapet, and end piers.[9]
A house adjacent to Dean Locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, it is in stone with a concrete tile roof. There are two storeys, two bays, a gabled outshut on the right, and a brick outshut at the rear. The doorway has an architrave and a fanlight, and the windows are sashes with architraves. In the right outshut is a cantedbay window with a hipped roof.[10]
The house and school are in stone with a slate roof, four bays, and a single-depth plan. There are windows on two storeys, to the right is a single-story entrance lobby, and the house has a separate entrance to the left. In the upper floor is an inscribed plaque. At the rear are two French windows, and mullioned windows, one of which also has a transom.[11][12]
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