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

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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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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