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Old Abram UDC Offices

Warrington Road, Abram

Listed Date: 00/00/0000
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Description

Council Offices c1903. Architect Heaton, Ralph & Heaton

Heaton and Ralph, later Heaton, Ralph and Heaton, were the most prolific of the Wigan firms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Description from The Builder Magazine

COUNCIL OFFICES, Abram Lancashire.—The District Council of Abram have erected new
offices, and these have just been opened. The site of the offices is on the east side of Warrington-road at Abram-brow. opposite St.John’s Church. 
The ground floor contains offices for the clerk, rate collector, nuisance inspector, and pay office. 
The first floor contains a council chamber. 30 ft. by 20 ft., surveyor’s office, chairman's parlour, and spare office. There is also a house adjoining containing six rooms, which can be attached to the office when further accommodation is required. 
There are three fireproof safe-rooms. and the basement contains a cellar for the heating apparatus. 
The entrance hall is paved with encaustic tiles, the walls have ornamental glazed tile dado, and the offices have wood block floors laid on a concrete bed.
The front elevation is of terra-cotta. 
The outbuildings consist of stabling for five horses and hav-loft over, waterman's workshops and store-room, and a shed for vehicles. 
The building has been erected by Messrs. Joseph Wilson  Co., of Wigan, and the furnishing by Messrs. Barlow and Messrs. Pendlebury Ltd . and the heating by Mr. W. H. Gaskell.
The total cost has been about £5.400, and the work has been carried out from the designs and under the supervision of Messrs. Heaton, Ralph & Heaton, of Wigan