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Grade U

Old Telephone Exchange

Silk Street, Leigh

Listed Date: 00/00/0000
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At Risk: No

Description

1925 - in brick, unusually including dressings such as the rusticated (grooved) quoins at the corners and the prominent cornice near the top of the wall. The ground floor design is dominated by the round arched window and door openings. The exchange originally had 700 telephone lines.