Wallgate Station Entrance Block is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Railway station entrance block. 4 related planning applications.
Wallgate Station Entrance Block
- WRENN ID
- keen-timber-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1999
- Type
- Railway station entrance block
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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
Detailed Attributes
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