119, 121 AND 123, GERALD ROAD (See details for further address information)

SALFORD

SD80SW GERALD ROAD 949-1/2/56 (South side) 18/01/80 Nos.119, 121 AND 123

II

Includes: No.1 LITTLETON ROAD. Shop premises. Dated 1909. Red brick with glazed brick and yellow and green faience dressings; plain tiled roof. Mixed classical and Arts and Crafts style. Triangular plan with 2 main facades meeting at acute angle marked by a tower. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the shop units entered from Gerald Road, and serviced from the rear (Littleton Road) elevation. Shop fronts renewed, but fascia and green faience pilasters survive. Round-arched doorway in base of polygonal angle turret, the curved keystone carrying faience frieze. 3 round-arched windows in upper storey of turret, and cornice oversailing on brackets and scallop tiles to ogee cupola roof. Return elevation to Littleton Road has one bay shop window with pilasters and fascia, then 3 round-arched windows with green faience voussoirs and stressed keystones reaching sill-band of upper storey. No.1 Littleton Road has a carriageway entrance with double doors, canted bay window to right and 3 windows above. At first-floor level, the shop elevations are identical, with wide gables to each facade with a range of 6 arcaded windows beneath, all with yellow faience dressings. Low relief faience panel towards apex recording 'Pendleton Cooperative Industrial Society Ltd.'. A single 3-light casement to left of gable on each facade, 2 to right. The hipped roof is surmounted on the angle by a leaded lantern with small louvred cupola, and has ridge cresting with finials. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was originally the butchery department of the former Pendleton Cooperative Industrial Society.

Listing NGR: SD8170200105