County Court And Inland Revenue Office

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.