Latitude: 53.4864 / 53°29'10"N
Longitude: -2.2405 / 2°14'25"W
OS Eastings: 384139
OS Northings: 398878
OS Grid: SJ841988
Mapcode National: GBR DKF.K7
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KMBM
Plus Code: 9C5VFQP5+HR
Entry Name: Cooperative Wholesale Society
Listing Date: 20 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025287
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388033
ID on this website: 101025287
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Ancoats and Clayton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Office building Edwardian architecture
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
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