Former Cooperative Wholesale Society Printing Works
FORMER COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY PRINTING WORKS, RUTHERFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024803
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cooperative Wholesale Society Printing Works
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY PRINTING WORKS, RUTHERFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024803
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cooperative Wholesale Society Printing Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY PRINTING WORKS, RUTHERFORD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY PRINTING WORKS, RUTHERFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24296 64181
Details
NZ 2464 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE RUTHERFORD STREET (west side) 19/620 Former C.W.S. printing works G.V. II Printing works. Circa 1890 by F. W. Rich for Co-operative Wholesale Society. Brick with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roof. 4 storeys and attics; 7 x 4 bays, the seventh a canted corner under octagonal tower; gable over 2 left bays. Ground floor has round keyed brick arch in corner entrance containing swan-neck pediment over recessed door; flat keyed round heads to door and window in 2 left bays; wide elliptical keyed and moulded arches elsewhere. Stone ground-floor entablature supports giant pilasters; second-floor cornice breaks forward over pilasters, which have stone banded rustication; plain brick pilasters frame third-floor windows in arched recesses under brick cornice. Wood mullions and transoms to all windows; double keystones to first-floor moulded segmental arches and to second-floor square window heads; 3 right bays have pedimented drip string over banded jambs. Keyed round window in left gable; smaller keyed windows in tower; linking pilastered parapet has brick coping. steeply-pitched roof; high dome over tower has moulded lead ribsand balustraded lantern with octagonal stage under round spirelet with swept eaves and ball-and spike finial.
Listing NGR: NZ2429664181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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