Description

ASHINGTON WOODHORN ROAD
NZ 28 NE (North side)
Ashington

2/50 Ashington
Co-operative Society
premises
II

Shopping arcade with offices and ballroom above. 1924 by Harrison, Ash and
Blythe of Newcastle, ground floor remodelled as department store 1976. Front
and stair hall in white terracotta moulded to resemble tooled ashlar, returns
and rear yellow brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3; red tile roof.
Baroque style.

Street front 3 storeys, 13 windows. Ground floor has tall plinth and wide
5-bay arcade, formerly open, with 1976 shop fronts in lugged archi-traves; short
bay at each end has channelled rustication and panelled double doors, with
radial-glazed overlights, in surrounds with deeply-inswept jambs and moulded
lintels. Upper floors, above broad band, have 9-bay Giant Ionic Order. 1st-
floor windows in architraves; frieze with leaded inscription ASHINGTON INDUSTRIAL
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD; mansard roof. To each side a broader rusticated bay
with a giant arch enclosing tripartite 1st floor window and segment-headed 2nd
floor window, below frieze with key pattern and parapet stepped up at centre;
lower end bays have broad pilasters, windows in linked architrave and shallow-
gabled parapet. Metal-framed casements with diagonal glazing bars, replaced on
1st floor of left rusticated bay and adjacent bay of centre.

Right return shows large boarded door of original covered cart dock.

Interior: stair hall has rusticated rear wall and closed-string imperial stair
with moulded balusters and handrail (and additional bronze handrail with
scrolled ends, on cast-iron standards) leading up to balconies. Panelled dado,
openings in architraves, panelled plaster ceiling. 2nd floor ballroom, now
warehouse, with segmental proscenium arch and arched ceiling with patterned
plaster ribs.

Listing NGR: NZ2766987796

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293324

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version