Description

WIGAN

SD5805SW KING STREET
24-1/8/24 (South West side)
11/07/83 No.47

GV II

Former Wigan Savings Bank, undergoing conversion at time of
inspection (June 1992). 1891, by H Verity; altered. Sandstone
ashlar facade, side and rear of yellow stock brick, slate roof
concealed by parapet. Rectangular plan at right-angles to
street. Italian palazzo style.
2 storeys (with basement to rear), 1:3 bays; rusticated ground
floor with alternate courses vermiculated, Corinthian columns
at 1st floor (paired either side of 1st bay and at right-hand
corner), plain frieze, dentilled and modillioned cornice and
balustraded parapet. The 1st bay has a square-headed doorway
(up 4 steps) and narrow side windows in a tripartite
architrave with a pediment over the doorway containing a
carved shield, and a Venetian window at 1st floor; the other
bays have square-headed windows at ground floor (boarded at
time of inspection) with vermiculated voussoirs and cartouche
keystones, and round-headed windows at 1st floor with
balustrading. Sturdy cast-iron railings at right-angles to
left of entrance.
INTERIOR: remodelling in progress at time of survey (June
1992).

Listing NGR: SD5830405429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664317

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)