Description

WIGAN

SD5805SW WALLGATE
24-1/8/102 (West side)
Nos.62-78 (Even)
Tower Buildings and Station Chambers

GV II

Commercial building, shops with offices over (part now Masonic
Hall). 1898, by Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton; altered. Brick
faced with red terracotta tiles and dressings, 2-span slate
roof. Rectangular plan incorporating 7 units at right-angles
to street, plus wagon entry to left. Free Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 8 bays; with plain pilasters
and very large double-voluted consoles to cornice over ground
floor, semi-octagonal shafts and tourelles framing each bay of
upper floors and finished with Indian-style open-work finial
hoods (perhaps ventilators). The 6th bay has a large doorway
with a very elaborate segmental-pedimented canopy on
exceptionally large foliated consoles, panelled double doors
and a plain semicircular fanlight; above this, a square
4-stage turret with paired superimposed pilasters, and a
dentilled cornice (former dome now missing). Otherwise, the
ground floor has an original double-fronted shop window to the
left of the doorway in this bay, and similar shop windows in
the 5th and 8th bays (other shop fronts altered). On the upper
floors the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th bays have shallow canted
oriels with elaborately foliated terracotta panels between
floors and Jacobean balustrades above; the 2nd, 5th and 7th
bays have bowed 3-light windows at 1st floor with similar
balustrades (mostly missing from the 2nd and 7th), and arcaded
3-light windows at 2nd floor with vase balustrades above. All
these windows have panelled pilasters and moulded wooden
transoms. Tall panelled and cornice chimneys.
Rear: staggered stair windows with stained glass; 3 bridges
linking 1st floor with parallel service range.
INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with No.80 (The Swan and
Railway Public House, qv) adjoining to left.

Listing NGR: SD5810705466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664382

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)