10, Hammerton Street

BURNLEY

SD8332NE HAMMERTON STREET 906-1/15/64 (East side) 29/09/77 No.10

GV II

Co-operative Society drapery shop, being an extension to Nos 12 & 14 to the right (qv), now shop (and upper floors integrated with those of Nos 12 & 14). 1905 By Hitchon and Pritchard of Burnley; altered. Sandstone ashlar with some polished granite dressings, 2-span slated roof. Edwardian Baroque style. Rectangular plan on corner site. 3 storeys and 1:2:1 windows, symmetrical; with pilasters of polished grey granite to the centre and ends of the ground floor (the triglyph entablatures and small pediments exposed above a C20 fascia board); channelled corner pilasters to each upper floor; the centre of the 2nd floor framed by an architrave of engaged Ionic columns with a pedimented entablature which contains a cartouche with raised lettering "BCS" (Burnley Co-operative Society) and breaks forward from a plain frieze, modillioned cornice and plain parapet. The windows of the upper floors have moulded architraves, those at 1st floor with open pediments containing cartouches depicting fruit, those at 2nd floor with keystones, and all sashed without glazing bars. Forms group with Nos 12 & 14 adjoining to the right (qv) and with Nos 9-29 opposite (qv), collectively representing the growth of the Co-operative Society in Burnley from 1862-1905.

Listing NGR: SD8394032567