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Latitude: 54.895 / 54°53'41"N
Longitude: -1.5772 / 1°34'37"W
OS Eastings: 427214
OS Northings: 555662
OS Grid: NZ272556
Mapcode National: GBR KCFV.B2
Mapcode Global: WHC44.R749
Plus Code: 9C6WVCVF+X4
Entry Name: Co-Operative Buildings
Listing Date: 18 November 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025205
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303768
ID on this website: 101025205
Location: Birtley, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, DH3
County: Gateshead
Electoral Ward/Division: Birtley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester-le-Street
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Birtley
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Building
NZ 25 NE BIRTLEY DURHAM ROAD
(east side)
12/4 Co-operative Buildings
G.V. II
Co-operative Society H.Q., now shops and offices. 1901 to 1903 by Liddle
and Brown of Newcastle for Birtley Co-operative Society. Brick with ashlar
dressings; roof Welsh slate with stone gable copings; lead-covered ogee
roofs to towers. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 22 windows and 8 in left return.
Cornice to ground floor shops defined by rusticated pilasters; later boards
cover original fascia. First floor; 8 central bays, defined by Ionic pilasters,
have sill and impost bands and keystoned arches to 4 pairs of round-headed
windows with glazing bars; flanking 3-storey one-bay towers have large
round stone canopy on brackets to chamfered and rusticated office entrance;
first floor sash in architrave with projecting sill and second floor keystoned
ox-eye window under string and eaves cornice. 6 and 6 outer bays have lugged
architraves and projecting sills to double sashes, the inner 3 under gables;
eaves cornice. Peaks of gables to street and on returns contain 3 small windows
in architraves with conjoined sill between ball-finialled shafts on foliage-
decorated brackets; similar shafts to foot stones; shell-ornamented segmental
pediment at apex on brick panel with blank shield; consoles to pediment
and to gable coping. Roof has balustrade over 8 central bays. Source:
Daily Leader 21st August, 1901.
Listing NGR: NZ2722155678
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