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Grade II

Former weavers house

5 Wild's Passage, Leigh

Listed Date: 29/03/1988
Part of Group: No
At Risk: No
Historic England Ref: 23 (Link)

Description

Weaver's house and topshop. c 1800, altered. Likely to have been a weaving shop associated either with the cotton or short-lived silk industry in Leigh. If so it is believed to be the only specialised weaving premises surviving in the Wigan area.

Interesting research by Thomas McGrath - Link