COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY

COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY, CORPORATION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025287
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
Statutory Address:: COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY, CORPORATION STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025287
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY
Statutory Address 1:: COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY, CORPORATION STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY, CORPORATION STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 84139 98878

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 CORPORATION STREET 698-1/17/71 (East side) 20/06/88 Cooperative Wholesale Society

GV II

Offices and warehouse. 1905-9, by F.E.L.Harris, dated 1907; rear block dated 1903. Red brick with dressings of polished granite and sandstone (roof concealed). Large rectangular plan. Neo-Baroque style. Four storeys with basement and full attic storey, 9 bays divided 3:3:3 by giant pilasters, and by coupled Corinthian columns at attic level, plus canted corners finished as drums at attic level. Massive round-headed central doorway with flanking niches and side windows set in black polished granite surround with frieze lettered "COOPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED"; segmental-headed basement windows; large canted mullion-and-transom windows to ground and 1st floors; giant colonnades to 2nd and 3rd floors, the 3rd floor windows with keyed open segmental pediments; small attic windows set in large round-headed arcades rising from paired free-standing Doric columns, roundels between the heads of the arches; balustraded parapet. Return sides similar. Rear faces Federation Street.Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8413998878

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.