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Latitude: 51.599 / 51°35'56"N
Longitude: -3.5412 / 3°32'28"W
OS Eastings: 293351
OS Northings: 190035
OS Grid: SS933900
Mapcode National: GBR HF.BKZ3
Mapcode Global: VH5H5.K2SH
Plus Code: 9C3RHFX5+JG
Entry Name: Former Co-operative Wholesale Society Building
Listing Date: 28 July 1997
Last Amended: 28 July 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18599
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300018599
Location: The building stands prominently S of the centre of Ogmore Vale, and backing on to Glyn Street.
County: Bridgend
Town: Ogmore Valley
Community: Ogmore Valley (Cwm Ogwr)
Community: Ogmore Valley
Locality: Ogmore Vale
Built-Up Area: Ogmore Vale
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The building was erected c.1910 by the Co-operative Wholesale Society as a local department store serving the Ogmore Valley. The ground floor contained a grocery shop, and the 'Co-op Shop' where payment was made, whilst the upper floor was for haberdashery, drapery and millinery. The shop closed c.1977.
Built of coursed rock-faced stone with a slate roof. Three storeys, the elevation facing the street being of 4 bays, two central bays with plate glass windows to the first floor, separated by a wooden Ionic pilaster, the upper part having coloured glass in leaded lights, and at the centre of each, a circular pivot-hung vent. Above, a fascia has DRAPERY AND MILLINERY in Arts and Crafts lettering against a roughened background. Dentilled cornice. The top floor has two simple rectangular openings and projecting eaves. The two narrower end bays have flanking pilasters and rise above the eaves to a small gable. Similar window on the first floor but a circular window with an aproned architrave and exaggerated keystone to the attic floor. On the ground floor, channel rusticated piers, the left bay retaining a segmental arched opening, now blocked. The ground floor elevation of the 3 southern bays has been altered.
Included, despite alterations to the ground floor shopfront, as a well-detailed commercial building for the Co-operative Society; which played a major role in the development of the valleys, and of interest for its Arts & Crafts influence.
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