The Swan and Railway Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1995. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
The Swan and Railway Hotel
- WRENN ID
- south-moat-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1995
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Swan and Railway Hotel, 80, Wallgate, WN1 1BA
- OS grid reference
- SD 580 054
- Coordinates
- 53.54393, -2.63396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swan and Railway Hotel is a public house that was originally built as a hotel in 1898 by WEV Crompton. It features red brick in Flemish bond with matching terracotta dressings, including square tiling on the ground floor, and has a green slate roof. The building has a narrow rectangular plan that is positioned at right angles to the street and is designed in the Scottish baronial style.
The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with a two-window facade. It has two semi-circular oriels on the upper floors, a modillioned cornice, and coupled attic gables. The ground floor has a wide square-headed doorway offset to the left, flanked by 2-light windows. To the right of the main entrance is a narrower doorway, with all these openings featuring moulded eared surrounds and large overlights with stained glass. The upper floors are adorned with 5-light mullioned windows, with three lights in the oriels, and the first floor windows are transomed. The gables have pairs of round-headed lancets separated by Art Nouveau shafts that rise to apex finials. The windows are fitted with small-paned glazing.
Inside, there are original features such as a mosaic floor in the porch that is lettered "Swan & Railway," and the entrance passage and rear hall are decorated with foliated glazed wall-tiles. To the left of the entrance passage is a lounge, while to the right is a servery leading to the bar vault. Both rooms feature panelled and stained glass screens, as well as original settle seating.
Local climate
The Swan and Railway Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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