Former National Westminster Bank

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SD5805NW 24-1/7/17

WIGAN KING STREET (South West side) Nos.1 and 3

11/07/83

GV II

Includes: Former National Westminster Bank WALLGATE.

Bank, now nightclub. 1866, with later additions to rear. Designed by Walters, Barker and Ellis of Manchester. Sandstone ashlar, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site. Classical style with Italianate accent.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, with four-window facades to Wallgate and King Street. Hammer-dressed plinth, continuous channelled apron to ground-floor windows, frieze with bead-and-reel enrichment and prominent moulded cornice doubling as sill-band to first floor, plain frieze and prominent bracketed and dentilled cornice which carries a blocking course with upstands to the Wallgate facade. The ground floor of this facade has a large round-headed doorway to the left, with double doors and a plain fanlight in an eared architrave with carved enrichment and a straight moulded cornice; and three large segmental-headed sashed windows with eared architraves which have console keystones. The first floor has similar but smaller windows with simpler architraves. The four-window left return (to King Street) has matching fenestration and a pair of side-wall chimneys; beyond this is a set-back two-window addition which has a tall doorway and a large tripartite window at ground-floor, and above this a feature balcony to the larger of the first-floor windows; and attached to the left of this is a short single-storey addition with a large doorway.

INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5819705535