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Latitude: 53.4563 / 53°27'22"N
Longitude: -2.193 / 2°11'34"W
OS Eastings: 387283
OS Northings: 395527
OS Grid: SJ872955
Mapcode National: GBR DWR.SZ
Mapcode Global: WHB9P.8DZ4
Plus Code: 9C5VFR44+GR
Entry Name: Beswick Cooperative Society Building
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1271454
English Heritage Legacy ID: 454820
ID on this website: 101271454
Location: Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M12
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Longsight
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Birch-in-Rusholme St Agnes with St John with St Cyprian
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Building
MANCHESTER
SJ89NE NORTH ROAD, Longsight
698-1/5/733 (East side)
Beswick Cooperative Society building
II
Cooperative Society shops and meeting hall. Dated 1912;
altered. Red brick with liberal dressings of green and buff
glazed terracotta, red tiled roof with geometrical patterned
band and cockscomb ridge tiles. Rectangular plan. Edwardian
Baroque style. Two storeys and attic, 11 bays; projected
ground floor with dark green Ionic pilasters between the shops
and a central recessed porch with dark green surround, light
green Ionic columns and segmental open pediment (etc);
inverted voluted brackets linking ground floor pilasters to
alternate pedestals of 1st-floor colonnade, which has Ionic
semi-columns with festoons and a thin cornice, all in matching
light green terracotta; swagged frieze of buff terracotta with
buff modillions to a green cornice; brick parapet with buff
terracotta balustrades and triangular dormers in alternate
bays, interrupted in the centre by a green segmental pediment
with raised lettering "BESWICK COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD". Tall
segmental-headed windows at 1st floor including a canted bay
in the centre with parapet lettered "BUILT AD 1912", and
coupled windows in the 2nd, 3rd, 10th and 11th bays, all with
elaborate surrounds of buff terracotta including quoined
jambs, moulded transoms and enriched keystones; and stained
glass in the upper lights. Square Baroque-style turret at left
gable.
Listing NGR: SJ8728395527
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