County Court and Inland Revenue Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1999. Court.

County Court and Inland Revenue Office

WRENN ID
over-zinc-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 December 1999
Type
Court
Address
County Court and Inland Revenue Office, Crawford Street
OS grid reference
SD 580 056
Coordinates
53.54572, -2.63456
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The County Court and Inland Revenue Office, built in 1898 by Henry Littler, is a county court building located on Crawford Street in Wigan. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has an approximately square plan and is situated on a corner site, continuing the range of the Magistrates Court and Police Station. It is designed in the Elizabethan style and features two and a half storeys over a basement, with four bays, sillbands on all floors, a canted turret at the left corner, and three unequal stepped gables.

The second bay includes a large depressed entrance archway with a chamfered surround and a moulded head that frames a recessed Tudor-arched doorway, which has a tympanum inscribed with "COUNTY COURT". This entrance is flanked by transomed one-light windows with hood-moulds. The ground floor showcases large double-transomed mullioned windows, while the first floor has similar single-transomed windows, all topped with Tudor-arched lights. The three attic gables feature mullion-and-transom windows with six, four, and six lights. The canted corner has one-light windows on each of its three sides, matching the style of the other windows, and the turret is topped with an embattled parapet and a steep octagonal roof, finished with an open cupola and a finial.

The five-bay left return facing King Street West is designed in a similar style, but the first three bays form a single large gabled composition with a two-storey canted bay window in the centre. The fourth bay features a very large multiple-light window at the raised ground floor. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with the Magistrates Court building, to which it serves as an extension.

Local climate

County Court and Inland Revenue Office 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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