Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 CORPORATION STREET
698-1/17/71 (East side)
20/06/88 Cooperative Wholesale Society

GV II

Offices and warehouse. 1905-9, by F.E.L.Harris, dated 1907;
rear block dated 1903. Red brick with dressings of polished
granite and sandstone (roof concealed). Large rectangular
plan. Neo-Baroque style. Four storeys with basement and full
attic storey, 9 bays divided 3:3:3 by giant pilasters, and by
coupled Corinthian columns at attic level, plus canted corners
finished as drums at attic level. Massive round-headed central
doorway with flanking niches and side windows set in black
polished granite surround with frieze lettered "COOPERATIVE
WHOLESALE SOCIETY LIMITED"; segmental-headed basement windows;
large canted mullion-and-transom windows to ground and 1st
floors; giant colonnades to 2nd and 3rd floors, the 3rd floor
windows with keyed open segmental pediments; small attic
windows set in large round-headed arcades rising from paired
free-standing Doric columns, roundels between the heads of the
arches; balustraded parapet. Return sides similar. Rear faces
Federation Street.Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8413998878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hanover Building at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5649370

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