104 St James' Street and 1-7 Hammerton Street
1-7, Hammerton Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244975
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 104 St James' Street and 1-7 Hammerton Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, Hammerton Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244975
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 104 St James' Street and 1-7 Hammerton Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, Hammerton Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
- Statutory Address 2:
- 104, St James' Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
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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:
- 1-7, Hammerton Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
- Statutory Address:
- 104, St James' Street, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 1NL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83934 32606
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 April 2021 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD8332NE
906-1/15/135
BURNLEY
ST JAMES' STREET (south side)
No. 104 and 1-7 Hammerton Street
29/09/77
GVII
HISTORY: this building is one of many in this style designed by Alfred Waterhouse, assisted by his son Paul, for the Prudential Assurance Company. The company’s office was number 104 St James’s Street, with three shops facing Hammerton Street. Alfred Waterhouse RA PPRIBA (1830-1905) is a Gothic Revival architect of national renown, who gained a reputation for grand public buildings, including most famously the Natural History Museum in London (1870-80) and the competition-winning design for Manchester Town Hall (1868-77). He is thought to have been responsible for around 650 buildings in his lifetime; around 40 of these are listed.
DETAILS: shops and offices constructed in 1891 on a corner site, with an elevation to St James’s Street and Hammerton Street. Renaissance Revival style.
MATERIALS: red brick, in Flemish bond, with dressings of buff terracotta and a concealed roof (probably of slate).
PLAN: it is a narrow trapeziform on plan, parallel to Hammerton Street.
EXTERIOR: of four storeys, it has a six bay east elevation to Hammerton Street with a canted single bay to the north-east and a single-bay return (north) to St James’s Street. The ground floor has late-C20 shop frontages; the upper floors have terracotta string courses and some pilasters, and vertically-linked terracotta pilastered architraves to the windows. The windows at first floor level are round-headed and those on the second and third floors are square-headed and coupled, and all have finely carved geometrical panels over them. The fourth to sixth canted bay of the east elevation and return elevation to St James’s Street are more elaborately treated with richly-ornamented terracotta tympani to the windows.
INTERIOR: altered. The upper floors were formerly unoccupied (1991).
Listing NGR: SD8393432606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467206
- 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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