Prestige Building (1937 Range Only)
PRESTIGE BUILDING (1937 RANGE ONLY), COLNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270973
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Prestige Building (1937 Range Only)
- Statutory Address:
- PRESTIGE BUILDING (1937 RANGE ONLY), COLNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270973
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Prestige Building (1937 Range Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESTIGE BUILDING (1937 RANGE ONLY), COLNE 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:
- PRESTIGE BUILDING (1937 RANGE ONLY), COLNE ROAD
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 84209 33171
Details
BURNLEY
SD8433SW COLNE ROAD 906-1/10/48 (West side) 02/05/95 Prestige Building (1937 range only)
II
Factory. 1937. By Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, for Burnley Corporation. Red brick in stretcher bond with deep bands of soldier coursing, concrete dressings (now texture-coated), metal-framed and a flat roof concealed but probably asphalt. Modernist style. Long rectangular plan parallel to road with office block projected from the centre (extensive workshops to rear not included). EXTERIOR: 2 storey centre of 1:5:1 bays, with long single-storey 4-window side ranges; symmetrical, and strongly rectilinear; with white concrete plinths, sillbands, and narrow sunk friezes with simple projected cornices. The centre has a giant 5-bay rectangular recess with splayed concrete reveals moulded in 3 orders, a tall ground floor guarded by 6 free-standing concrete columnar lamp standards which have vertical ovolo-and-fillet moulding and are surmounted by ovoid-shaped metal lamps with oval glazing (resembling helmets); a large square-headed doorway in the centre with glazed double doors furnished with long pendent brass handles curved at the foot and a large rectangular overlight with Art Deco curvilinear glazing bars; one large square-headed window in each of the other bays; a broad band of soldier coursing over these openings, and continuous fenestration at 1st floor with a rippled concrete apron. The outer bays each have a 2-storey window to the height of the recess, and the "entablature" to the whole of this block is a thick sandwich of stretcher bond between bands of soldier coursing (now with "THE PRESTIGE GROUP PLC" in large attached lettering). The 4-window set-back side ranges are lower and have wide oblong 3-light windows with flat-faced concrete mullions and concrete lintels. The 2-window left return is in matching style; the right-hand return has an exposed basement with former loading bay. INTERIOR: fine entrance hall containing doglegged staircase with smooth marble wall and brass handrail. HISTORY: built by Burnley Corporation development Committee to ameliorate the effects of the decline of the cotton industry in the town; designed by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, architects of (inter alia) the Firestone Factory, Brentwood, and the Hoover Factory in London.
Listing NGR: SD8420933171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467046
- 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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