PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282574
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- Statutory Address:
- PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92657 04877
Details
OLDHAM
SD9204NE UNION STREET
780-1/6/85 (North side)
23/01/73 Prudential Assurance Buildings
GV II
Office building. 1889. By Alfred Waterhouse. Brick with
terracotta dressings, and red plain tiled roof.
3 storeys raised over basement with attic. 3-window range with
recessed polygonal towers over entrances to each side.
Polished granite plinth and piers to round-arched entrance in
shallow projecting gabled porch.
3 wide round-arched windows to ground floor, each of 3 lights
with small upper panes. Raised lettering "Prudential Assurance
Buildings" over ground floor windows.
3-light mullioned and transomed windows above, with decorative
terracotta panelled architraves and cartouches over each
window. Second floor windows similar. Lozenge frieze below
modillion eaves cornice. New dormer windows in roof, and gable
end stacks. 2-light transomed windows in 3 faces of angle
towers, with decorative terracotta dressings. Attic storey
above cornice, and interlace decoration to frieze over attic
windows.
West return of white glazed brick, with long 2-storeyed wing
with 5 wide segmentally-arched windows and smaller windows to
service range beyond. East return brick and terracotta, with
canted angle to rear gable. Rear range parallel to street
links the two wings.
INTERIOR of main hall has ornate plaster panelled ceiling and
tiled walls.
Listing NGR: SD9265704877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388950
- 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.
End of official listing
