Description

WIGAN

SD5805NW CRAWFORD STREET
24-1/7/9 (North side)
Gerard Winstanley House (former
Magistrates Court and Police
Station)

GV II

Magistrates court and police station, now various offices.
1887-8, by Henry Littler (dated on foundation stone at east
corner); altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Long range parallel to street with
curved return at east end. Elizabethan style.
2 and a half storeys, 12:1 bays, stepped up slightly between
the 6th and 7th bays, with chamfered plinth, moulded
sillbands, attic gables with kneelers and finials, and a
circular turret set back at the east end. The ground floor has
Tudor arched doorways to the 3rd, 6th, 8th and 11th bays, all
with hollow spandrels and mullioned overlights, and large
mullion-and-transom 6-light windows. Both upper floors have
similar windows, the attic storey less regular with large
gables to the 2nd, 7th and 10th bays containing 6-light
windows and smaller gables to the 4th, 5th, 9th and 13th bays
containing cross-windows. 6 tall multiple-flue corniced
chimney stacks. The east return is an irregular 3-window range
with an elliptical wagon archway through the ground floor, and
at its left corner a circular turret with steep swept conical
roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with County Court building continued to left in
matching style (qv).

Listing NGR: SD5807405649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664302

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)