Wigan Hall

Wigan Hall is a rectory dating from 1875-6, designed by G.E. Street for the Bridgeman family. The building has been slightly reduced in size. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble at ground floor, with timber framing and brick nogging at the first floor and plaster in the gables. The roof is tiled in red, with brick chimneys. The layout follows an irregular double-pile plan, intended to resemble a hall-and-crosswing design. The architectural style is late medieval.

The exterior features two storeys with approximately 1:3:1 window arrangements, the first bay appearing as a gabled wing, and a set-back gabled wing to the right. The building has a chamfered plinth, angle buttresses to the gable on the left, and a brattished wooden cornice over the ground floor. There is coved jettying to the first floor of the left wing, and steeply pitched roofs with overhanging eaves and barge-boarded gable verges. The main range includes a moulded segmental-pointed arch over a recessed porch, a similar but smaller inner doorway with an elaborate strap-hinged board door, a buttress with a roundel displaying the Bridgeman arms, three stone cross-windows, and a large transomed ten-light gabled window that breaks the eaves. The left wing has a stone-arcaded window of four small cusped lights at ground floor, a wooden transomed eight-light window at first floor, and a jettied gable with herringbone bracing. A ridge chimney, aligned with the porch, has tall clustered polygonal shafts and cornicing. A 1958 range replaces a former service wing attached to the right. A return side incorporates a large bay window with a segmental-headed transomed window of eight cusped lights beneath a pitched tiled roof, and a narrow five-sided oriel at first floor.

The rear of the building presents a long range, with the left half stepped out. It features mullioned and transomed windows at ground floor, and a right-hand portion with three medieval-style windows and an extruded chimney stack with tall clustered polygonal shafts. Arch-braced timber framing is present at first floor, encompassing a gable with a transomed six-light window and several smaller windows.

Inside, the hall is large and central, with a tiled floor featuring the arms of the Bridgeman family.