12 And 14, Hammerton Street

BURNLEY

SD8332NE HAMMERTON STREET 906-1/15/65 (East side) 29/09/77 Nos.12 AND 14

GV II

Co-operative Society store, now video shop (and upper floors integrated with 1905 extension, No.10 to the left (qv)). Dated 1862 at 1st floor; altered. Punch-dressed sandstone ashlar with freestone dressings, 2-span hipped roof (concealed but probably slate). Rectangular plan on corner site. 3 storeys and 4 windows; entirely altered at ground floor, but with rusticated quoins to the upper floors, a sillband to the 2nd floor, and a moulded cornice with blocking course. The 1st floor has sashed windows without glazing bars and the 2nd floor has 4-pane sashes, all with raised sills and plain rectangular lintels, and in the centre of the 1st floor is a stone plaque with raised lettering: BURNLEY EQUITABLE/ CO-OPERATIVE/ AND INDUSTRIAL/ SOCIETY & STORE/ 1862 flanked by cruciform tie-plates. The 4-window right-hand return side to Hargreaves Street has matching fenestration. INTERIOR: upper floors integrated with No.10 to the left; construction similar to cotton mills, with cast-iron columns and beams; good Jacobean-style staircase and some other contemporary decoration. HISTORY: 1st building designed and built for Burnley Co-operative Society (formed in 1860). Forms group with its 1905 extension (No.10 adjoining to the left (qv)), and with Nos 9-29 opposite (qv), collectively representing the growth of the Burnley Co-operative Society from 1862-1905.

Listing NGR: SD8394032567