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Latitude: 53.5458 / 53°32'44"N
Longitude: -2.6342 / 2°38'3"W
OS Eastings: 358074
OS Northings: 405649
OS Grid: SD580056
Mapcode National: GBR BW1F.HN
Mapcode Global: WH97Y.H4VK
Plus Code: 9C5VG9W8+88
Entry Name: Gerard Winstanley House (Former Magistrates Court and Police Station)
Listing Date: 8 December 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384462
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484896
ID on this website: 101384462
Location: Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN1
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wigan
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Wigan All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WIGAN
SD5805NW CRAWFORD STREET
24-1/7/9 (North side)
Gerard Winstanley House (former
Magistrates Court and Police
Station)
GV II
Magistrates court and police station, now various offices.
1887-8, by Henry Littler (dated on foundation stone at east
corner); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Long range parallel to street with
curved return at east end. Elizabethan style.
2 and a half storeys, 12:1 bays, stepped up slightly between
the 6th and 7th bays, with chamfered plinth, moulded
sillbands, attic gables with kneelers and finials, and a
circular turret set back at the east end. The ground floor has
Tudor arched doorways to the 3rd, 6th, 8th and 11th bays, all
with hollow spandrels and mullioned overlights, and large
mullion-and-transom 6-light windows. Both upper floors have
similar windows, the attic storey less regular with large
gables to the 2nd, 7th and 10th bays containing 6-light
windows and smaller gables to the 4th, 5th, 9th and 13th bays
containing cross-windows. 6 tall multiple-flue corniced
chimney stacks. The east return is an irregular 3-window range
with an elliptical wagon archway through the ground floor, and
at its left corner a circular turret with steep swept conical
roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with County Court building continued to left in
matching style (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5807405649
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