Gerard Winstanley House (Former Magistrates Court and Police Station)
GERARD WINSTANLEY HOUSE (FORMER MAGISTRATES COURT AND POLICE STATION), CRAWFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384462
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gerard Winstanley House (Former Magistrates Court and Police Station)
- Statutory Address:
- GERARD WINSTANLEY HOUSE (FORMER MAGISTRATES COURT AND POLICE STATION), CRAWFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384462
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gerard Winstanley House (Former Magistrates Court and Police Station)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GERARD WINSTANLEY HOUSE (FORMER MAGISTRATES COURT AND POLICE STATION), CRAWFORD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GERARD WINSTANLEY HOUSE (FORMER MAGISTRATES COURT AND POLICE STATION), CRAWFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58074 05649
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484896
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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