THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES

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:: THE COOP JEWELLERS PREMISES, 45, WELLINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 333762
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Coronation History of the Barnsley British Cooperative Society 1862-1902, (1903)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.