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12 and 14, Hammerton Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Burnley, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7891 / 53°47'20"N

Longitude: -2.2453 / 2°14'43"W

OS Eastings: 383934

OS Northings: 432559

OS Grid: SD839325

Mapcode National: GBR DSRM.PG

Mapcode Global: WHB83.H101

Plus Code: 9C5VQQQ3+JV

Entry Name: 12 and 14, Hammerton Street

Listing Date: 29 September 1977

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1244813

English Heritage Legacy ID: 467064

ID on this website: 101244813

Location: Burnley, Lancashire, BB11

County: Lancashire

District: Burnley

Electoral Ward/Division: Daneshouse with Stoneyholme

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Burnley

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Burnley St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



BURNLEY

SD8332NE HAMMERTON STREET
906-1/15/65 (East side)
29/09/77 Nos.12 AND 14

GV II

Co-operative Society store, now video shop (and upper floors
integrated with 1905 extension, No.10 to the left (qv)). Dated
1862 at 1st floor; altered. Punch-dressed sandstone ashlar
with freestone dressings, 2-span hipped roof (concealed but
probably slate). Rectangular plan on corner site.
3 storeys and 4 windows; entirely altered at ground floor, but
with rusticated quoins to the upper floors, a sillband to the
2nd floor, and a moulded cornice with blocking course. The 1st
floor has sashed windows without glazing bars and the 2nd
floor has 4-pane sashes, all with raised sills and plain
rectangular lintels, and in the centre of the 1st floor is a
stone plaque with raised lettering:
BURNLEY EQUITABLE/ CO-OPERATIVE/ AND INDUSTRIAL/ SOCIETY &
STORE/ 1862
flanked by cruciform tie-plates. The 4-window right-hand
return side to Hargreaves Street has matching fenestration.
INTERIOR: upper floors integrated with No.10 to the left;
construction similar to cotton mills, with cast-iron columns
and beams; good Jacobean-style staircase and some other
contemporary decoration.
HISTORY: 1st building designed and built for Burnley
Co-operative Society (formed in 1860).
Forms group with its 1905 extension (No.10 adjoining to the
left (qv)), and with Nos 9-29 opposite (qv), collectively
representing the growth of the Burnley Co-operative Society
from 1862-1905.


Listing NGR: SD8394032567

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