Tower Buildings And Station Chambers

Tower Buildings and Station Chambers is a commercial building located at 62-78 Wallgate in Wigan. Built in 1898 by Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton, it has been altered over the years. The structure features a brick facade with red terracotta tiles and dressings, topped by a two-span slate roof. It has a rectangular plan that includes seven units arranged at right angles to the street, along with a wagon entry on the left. The building is designed in a Free Baroque style.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with eight bays. It is adorned with plain pilasters and large double-voluted consoles supporting the cornice above the ground floor. Each bay of the upper floors is framed by semi-octagonal shafts and tourelles, finished with Indian-style open-work finial hoods, which may serve as ventilators. The sixth bay features a prominent doorway with an elaborate segmental-pedimented canopy supported by exceptionally large foliated consoles, along with panelled double doors and a plain semicircular fanlight above. A square four-stage turret with paired superimposed pilasters and a dentilled cornice is situated above this doorway, although the former dome is now missing.

The ground floor includes an original double-fronted shop window to the left of the doorway in the sixth bay, with similar shop windows in the fifth and eighth bays, while other shop fronts have been altered. On the upper floors, the first, third, fourth, sixth, and eighth bays boast shallow canted oriels with elaborately foliated terracotta panels between floors and Jacobean balustrades above. The second, fifth, and seventh bays feature bowed three-light windows at the first floor, with similar balustrades (mostly missing from the second and seventh), and arcaded three-light windows at the second floor with vase balustrades above. All windows are framed by panelled pilasters and moulded wooden transoms. The building is topped with tall panelled chimneys with cornices.

At the rear, there are staggered stair windows with stained glass, and three bridges connect the first floor with a parallel service range. The Tower Buildings and Station Chambers forms a group with the adjacent No. 80, The Swan and Railway Public House. The interior has not been inspected.