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
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1999
- Type
- Railway station entrance block
- Address
- Wallgate Station Entrance Block, WN1 1BB
- OS grid reference
- SD 581 055
- Coordinates
- 53.54476, -2.63314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wallgate Station entrance block is a railway station booking hall and office block built in 1896 by Henry Shelmerdine, replacing the original station from 1848. The building is constructed of red brick with red sandstone dressings and has a slate roof. It features a porte-cochere made of cast-iron and glass. The structure has an irregular plan that runs parallel to the street and is set back from it, with a front canopy and a prominent porte-cochere that spans a cobbled forecourt.
The building has two storeys and is arranged in a 2:3:2 bay configuration, with the corners canted back. The ground floor is arcaded, featuring elliptical-headed arches with linking impost bands, entrance arches in the three-bay center, and windows in the flanking wings. The first floor has mullioned windows, and the wings are topped with hipped roofs. The ground floor is protected by a five-bay canopy, from which extends a tall three-bay porte-cochere supported by cast-iron columns with arched open-work foliated brackets and a glazed roof made up of three hipped spans carried on latticed girders. This porte-cochere is a notable feature of this side of the street.
Local climate
Wallgate Station Entrance Block 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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