Description

WIGAN

SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/115 (West side)
Wallgate Station, entrance block

GV II

Railway station booking hall/office block. 1896, by Henry
Shelmerdine; replacing original station built 1848. Red brick
with red sandstone dressings, slate roof; with porte-cochere
of cast-iron and glass. Irregular plan parallel to street and
standing back from it, with front canopy and very prominent
porte-cochere bridging cobbled forecourt.
2 storeys, 2:3:2 bays, the corners canted back; arcaded ground
floor composed of elliptical-headed arches with linking impost
bands, entrance arches in the 3-bay centre and windows in the
flanking wings; mullioned windows at 1st floor; hipped roofs
to wings. Ground floor protected by 5-bay canopy from which
projects a tall 3-bay porte-cochere composed of cast-iron
columns with arched open-work foliated brackets and glazed
roof of 3 hipped spans carried on latticed girders. Forms a
noticeable feature of this side of the street.

Listing NGR: SD5814305532

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664385

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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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)