Coops Factory
COOPS FACTORY, DORNING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384464
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Coops Factory
- Statutory Address:
- COOPS FACTORY, DORNING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384464
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Coops Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOPS FACTORY, DORNING 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:
- COOPS FACTORY, DORNING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58004 05671
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE DORNING STREET
24-1/2/11 Coops Factory
11/07/83
II
Clothing factory, now warehouse. 1871, by R Todd of Southport,
for Timothy Coop and James Marsden; with large additions of
1888, by Isitt and Verity, and 1892 by W Verity. Yellow and
red brick on rusticated sandstone basement (roof concealed but
probably asphalt). Very large rectangular block on corner
site. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 4 and 6 storeys, on a site which slopes down from
right to left: the 1871 portion to the right has 4 storeys
(apparently reduced from 5) and 5 bays; the 1888 portion in
the centre, breaking forwards slightly and itself in 2
portions, has 6 storeys including a basement, and 5:4 bays;
and the 1892 portion to the left, set back slightly, has 4
storeys including the basement, and 4 bays. The 1st build, to
the right, has the windows of the 1st and 2nd floors set in a
giant pilastered arcade of round-headed arches with keystones
(floors above this level probably formerly similar but the
topmost now missing), and the subsequent build to the left
continue this treatment at the same horizontal level (2nd and
3rd floors, because of the slope), while the 1888 build in the
centre repeats the same treatment at 4th and 5th floors. All
parts have yellow brick pilasters and corner pilasters; the
centre has bracketed cornices, and a balustraded parapet to
the 4-bay portion. The basement has square-headed windows;
otherwise, all the windows are segmental-headed except those
in the heads of the arcades which are round-headed. Main
entrance in 4-bay portion of the centre, in a large
round-headed archway moulded in 3 orders, and further
distinguished by a feature-balcony at 1st-floor level. Very
long left return of 1892 portion, 23 bays in style matching
front. Rear and INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: established to employ girls redundant as a result of
the Cotton Famine of the 1860s.
Listing NGR: SD5800405671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484898
- 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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