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Latitude: 53.5448 / 53°32'41"N
Longitude: -2.6331 / 2°37'59"W
OS Eastings: 358143
OS Northings: 405532
OS Grid: SD581055
Mapcode National: GBR BW1G.Q1
Mapcode Global: WH97Y.J5CC
Entry Name: Wallgate Station Entrance Block
Listing Date: 8 December 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384563
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484998
Location: Wigan, WN1
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central
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
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
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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