Cooperative Society Building is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Office building. 2 related planning applications.

Cooperative Society Building

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Office building
Address
Cooperative Society Building, 29, Dantzic Street, M4 2AH
OS grid reference
SJ 841 988
Coordinates
53.48627, -2.23968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Co-operative Society Building is an office building constructed between 1937 and 1942, designed by W.A. Johnson, who was the Chief Architect to the Co-operative Wholesale Society. It features buff and blue/purple brick with stone dressings and has a flat roof. The building stands seven storeys tall, with a continuous range of metal-framed casement windows on Dantzic Street. The front of the building slightly projects for five storeys and curves at the corners. The fifth floor includes a decorative cornice band, while the sixth floor is recessed and has vertical bands. Above this is a small services block. The ground floor has an entrance and windows that are separated by piers.

Local climate

Cooperative Society Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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