Ashington Co-operative Society Premises
ASHINGTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY PREMISES, WOODHORN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041396
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashington Co-operative Society Premises
- Statutory Address:
- ASHINGTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY PREMISES, WOODHORN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041396
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ashington Co-operative Society Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHINGTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY PREMISES, WOODHORN ROAD
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:
- ASHINGTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY PREMISES, WOODHORN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27669 87796
Details
ASHINGTON WOODHORN ROAD NZ 28 NE (North side) Ashington
2/50 Ashington Co-operative Society premises II
Shopping arcade with offices and ballroom above. 1924 by Harrison, Ash and Blythe of Newcastle, ground floor remodelled as department store 1976. Front and stair hall in white terracotta moulded to resemble tooled ashlar, returns and rear yellow brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3; red tile roof. Baroque style.
Street front 3 storeys, 13 windows. Ground floor has tall plinth and wide 5-bay arcade, formerly open, with 1976 shop fronts in lugged archi-traves; short bay at each end has channelled rustication and panelled double doors, with radial-glazed overlights, in surrounds with deeply-inswept jambs and moulded lintels. Upper floors, above broad band, have 9-bay Giant Ionic Order. 1st- floor windows in architraves; frieze with leaded inscription ASHINGTON INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD; mansard roof. To each side a broader rusticated bay with a giant arch enclosing tripartite 1st floor window and segment-headed 2nd floor window, below frieze with key pattern and parapet stepped up at centre; lower end bays have broad pilasters, windows in linked architrave and shallow- gabled parapet. Metal-framed casements with diagonal glazing bars, replaced on 1st floor of left rusticated bay and adjacent bay of centre.
Right return shows large boarded door of original covered cart dock.
Interior: stair hall has rusticated rear wall and closed-string imperial stair with moulded balusters and handrail (and additional bronze handrail with scrolled ends, on cast-iron standards) leading up to balconies. Panelled dado, openings in architraves, panelled plaster ceiling. 2nd floor ballroom, now warehouse, with segmental proscenium arch and arched ceiling with patterned plaster ribs.
Listing NGR: NZ2766987796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235921
- 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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