The Coop Jewellers Premises
THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES, 45, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315040
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Coop Jewellers Premises
- Statutory Address:
- THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES, 45, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315040
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Coop Jewellers Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES, 45, WELLINGTON 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.
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:
- THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES, 45, WELLINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34526 06112
Details
SE30NW BARNSLEY WELLINGTON STREET (north side), Barnsley 3/73 No 45 (The Co-op Jeweller's Premises) GV II Co-operative store. 1885. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Free classical style. 3 storeys. 4 bays to Wellington Street, one corner bay, and 7 bays to Market Street. The ground floor is covered by applied materials (1970s) but is said to be intact behind. Entrance in corner bay, above which is a 1st- and 2nd-floor round oriel, with a 3-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor. The apron of the 1st-floor window has the words 'ESTABLISHED 1862' in raised letters. The oriel is surmounted by a slender-conical slated spire with iron crest. The bays of the Wellington Street elevation have windows of 2, one and one lights in raised surrounds, the multiple-light windows being mullioned and transomed. Above the 3-light window, at 2nd-floor level, is a double transomed 3-light window which rises above eaves level and is surmounted by a blind pedimented dormer with swept support and ball finials. The frieze between 1st- and 2nd-floor windows and extending into the corner bay reads, in raised letters: 'BARNSLEY BRITISH CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED'. Moulded cornice and parapet. The Market Street elevation is similar with bays of 1, 3, 12, 1, 3 and 1 lights. Again the 3-light transomed windows become double transomed windows at 2nd-floor level and are surmounted by blind pedimented dormers. To the far right is a contemporary wrought-iron gate to a cart entry. Built as offices, hall, reading room and central butchering department. Included for group value.
Barnsley British Co-operative Society Ltd., Coronation History of the B.B.C.S. Ltd. 1862-l902, 1903.
Listing NGR: SE3452606112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333762
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coronation History of the Barnsley British Cooperative Society 1862-1902, (1903)
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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