Description

BURNLEY

SD8332NE HAMMERTON STREET
906-1/15/64 (East side)
29/09/77 No.10

GV II

Co-operative Society drapery shop, being an extension to Nos
12 & 14 to the right (qv), now shop (and upper floors
integrated with those of Nos 12 & 14). 1905 By Hitchon and
Pritchard of Burnley; altered. Sandstone ashlar with some
polished granite dressings, 2-span slated roof. Edwardian
Baroque style. Rectangular plan on corner site.
3 storeys and 1:2:1 windows, symmetrical; with pilasters of
polished grey granite to the centre and ends of the ground
floor (the triglyph entablatures and small pediments exposed
above a C20 fascia board); channelled corner pilasters to each
upper floor; the centre of the 2nd floor framed by an
architrave of engaged Ionic columns with a pedimented
entablature which contains a cartouche with raised lettering
"BCS" (Burnley Co-operative Society) and breaks forward from a
plain frieze, modillioned cornice and plain parapet. The
windows of the upper floors have moulded architraves, those at
1st floor with open pediments containing cartouches depicting
fruit, those at 2nd floor with keystones, and all sashed
without glazing bars.
Forms group with Nos 12 & 14 adjoining to the right (qv) and
with Nos 9-29 opposite (qv), collectively representing the
growth of the Co-operative Society in Burnley from 1862-1905.

Listing NGR: SD8394032567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537392

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5