Cooperative Press

COOPERATIVE PRESS, 23, NEW MOUNT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1291013
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Cooperative Press
Statutory Address:
COOPERATIVE PRESS, 23, NEW MOUNT STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1291013
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Cooperative Press
Statutory Address 1:
COOPERATIVE PRESS, 23, NEW MOUNT STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COOPERATIVE PRESS, 23, NEW MOUNT 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:
SJ8447399072

Details

SJ8499
698-1/15/457

MANCHESTER

NEW MOUNT STREET, Ancoats
(North side)
No.23
Cooperative Press

GV
II

Industrial building or warehouse. Later C19 with addition or
alteration of c.1905. Brown brick with red brick dressings,
and red brick with yellow terracotta dressings (roof not
visible). Rectangular plan on island site, in 2 portions. Left
range is 4 storeys with basement and attic, 4 windows plus
canted corner to left; right-hand range is 4 storeys with
basement. The left hand range is in Edwardian Baroque style,
with string courses, yellow terracotta bands, pilasters and
open-pedimented gable; the first 3 bays are a symmetrical
composition with banded pilasters carried up from cartouches
at 1st floor, a modillioned open pediment containing a large
lunette with run-out terracotta voussoirs and keystone, and 1,
2 and 1-light sashed windows to each floor except the 3rd
which has keyed oculi flanking the 2-light window; all these
windows have moulded terracotta architraves with keystones.
The 4th bay has similar windows. The splayed corner has a
square-headed doorway with panelled double doors and elaborate
surround including a keyed oculus in the tympanum and a
corbelled semi-circular canopy, windows like those of the
front except that at 3rd floor which is altered, and a tall
stepped parapet. The right-hand range, undecorated except for
a corbel table to the parapet divided into bays by short
pendent pilasters, has square-headed windows to basement and
ground floor, and segmental-headed windows above with stepped
surrounds; most of these windows with 4-pane sashes. Included
for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8447399072

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
388349
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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