47, King Street

WIGAN

SD5805SW KING STREET 24-1/8/24 (South West side) 11/07/83 No.47

GV II

Former Wigan Savings Bank, undergoing conversion at time of inspection (June 1992). 1891, by H Verity; altered. Sandstone ashlar facade, side and rear of yellow stock brick, slate roof concealed by parapet. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. 2 storeys (with basement to rear), 1:3 bays; rusticated ground floor with alternate courses vermiculated, Corinthian columns at 1st floor (paired either side of 1st bay and at right-hand corner), plain frieze, dentilled and modillioned cornice and balustraded parapet. The 1st bay has a square-headed doorway (up 4 steps) and narrow side windows in a tripartite architrave with a pediment over the doorway containing a carved shield, and a Venetian window at 1st floor; the other bays have square-headed windows at ground floor (boarded at time of inspection) with vermiculated voussoirs and cartouche keystones, and round-headed windows at 1st floor with balustrading. Sturdy cast-iron railings at right-angles to left of entrance. INTERIOR: remodelling in progress at time of survey (June 1992).

Listing NGR: SD5830405429