Wallgate Station Entrance Block
WALLGATE STATION ENTRANCE BLOCK, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384563
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wallgate Station Entrance Block
- Statutory Address:
- WALLGATE STATION ENTRANCE BLOCK, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384563
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wallgate Station Entrance Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLGATE STATION ENTRANCE BLOCK, WALLGATE
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:
- WALLGATE STATION ENTRANCE BLOCK, WALLGATE
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 58143 05532
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484998
- 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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