Cooperative Press

SJ8499 698-1/15/457

MANCHESTER

NEW MOUNT STREET, Ancoats (North side) No.23 Cooperative Press

GV II

Industrial building or warehouse. Later C19 with addition or alteration of c.1905. Brown brick with red brick dressings, and red brick with yellow terracotta dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan on island site, in 2 portions. Left range is 4 storeys with basement and attic, 4 windows plus canted corner to left; right-hand range is 4 storeys with basement. The left hand range is in Edwardian Baroque style, with string courses, yellow terracotta bands, pilasters and open-pedimented gable; the first 3 bays are a symmetrical composition with banded pilasters carried up from cartouches at 1st floor, a modillioned open pediment containing a large lunette with run-out terracotta voussoirs and keystone, and 1, 2 and 1-light sashed windows to each floor except the 3rd which has keyed oculi flanking the 2-light window; all these windows have moulded terracotta architraves with keystones. The 4th bay has similar windows. The splayed corner has a square-headed doorway with panelled double doors and elaborate surround including a keyed oculus in the tympanum and a corbelled semi-circular canopy, windows like those of the front except that at 3rd floor which is altered, and a tall stepped parapet. The right-hand range, undecorated except for a corbel table to the parapet divided into bays by short pendent pilasters, has square-headed windows to basement and ground floor, and segmental-headed windows above with stepped surrounds; most of these windows with 4-pane sashes. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8447399072