Beswick Cooperative Society Building

The Beswick Cooperative Society building is a cooperative society shop and meeting hall, dated 1912 and altered over time. It is constructed of red brick with decorative green and buff glazed terracotta, topped with a red tiled roof featuring a geometric patterned band and cockscomb ridge tiles. The building has a rectangular plan and is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style, standing two storeys high with an attic and comprising 11 bays.

The ground floor projects forward and is accentuated by dark green Ionic pilasters that separate the shops, along with a central recessed porch framed in dark green, featuring light green Ionic columns and a segmental open pediment. Inverted voluted brackets connect the ground floor pilasters to alternate pedestals of the first-floor colonnade, which showcases Ionic semi-columns adorned with festoons and a thin cornice, all crafted from matching light green terracotta. A swagged frieze made of buff terracotta, complete with buff modillions, supports a green cornice. The building is topped with a brick parapet featuring buff terracotta balustrades and triangular dormers in alternate bays. The centre of the parapet is interrupted by a green segmental pediment that displays the raised lettering "BESWICK COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD."

On the first floor, there are tall segmental-headed windows, including a canted bay in the centre that bears the inscription "BUILT AD 1912." Coupled windows are found in the second, third, tenth, and eleventh bays, all framed with elaborate buff terracotta surrounds that include quoined jambs, moulded transoms, and enriched keystones, with stained glass in the upper lights. A square Baroque-style turret is positioned at the left gable.