The Swan And Railway Hotel

WIGAN

SD5805SW WALLGATE 24-1/8/103 (West side) 27/06/95 No.80 The Swan and Railway Hotel

GV II

Hotel, now public house. 1898, by WEV Crompton. Red brick in Flemish bond with matching terracotta dressings including square tiling to ground floor; green slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Scottish baronial style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, a 2-window facade, with two 2-storey semi-circular oriels to the upper floors, a modillioned cornice and coupled attic gables. The ground floor has a wide square-headed doorway offset left and flanked by 2-light windows, that to the right with a narrower doorway immediately to its right, all these openings with moulded eared surrounds and large overlights with stained glass. The upper floors have 5-light mullioned windows (3 lights in the oriels), those at 1st floor transomed, and pairs of round-headed lancets in the gables separated by Art Nouveau shafts rising to apex finials. Small-paned glazing to the windows. INTERIOR: original features including mosaic floor to porch lettered "Swan & Railway"; entrance passage and rear hall with foliated glazed wall-tiles; lounge to left of entrance passage, servery to bar of vault to right, panelled and stained glass screens to bar and original settle seating in both these rooms.

Listing NGR: SD5808805440