Cooper'S Marmalade Factory

SP5006SE PARK END STREET 612/7/10070 27 27-JUL-00 Cooper's Marmalade Factory

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Marmalade factory, converted to offices. 1902-3; by Herbert Quinton; extended 1925. Red brick with Bath stone dressings. Roof concealed behind parapets. PLAN: Main block with central carriageway through to single storey ranges at rear with tall chimney. Main building extended in 1925 to left [E] and at rear. Late Victorian Freestyle. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north front. Small Tuscan columns to ground floor windows supporting entablature and at centre rusticated pilasters flanking an elliptically arched carriageway with spandrels carved with arabesques and ornate wrought-iron gates with an overthrow, also featuring arabesque and scroll decoration. The first and second floors are united by segmentally arched recesses in which the windows of both floors are set, the second floor windows of a Diocletian type, the centre window bowed and with a frieze of panels with carved stone festoons. Stone third storey treated as an attic with rusticated pilasters and bulbous Tuscan columns between the windows and with shaped parapet above with ball finials. 1925 2-storey extension on left with similar details, continued around the back, where the main elevation is plain with segmental headed windows. Single storey ranges at rear connected to main range by glazed canopy, and tall brick chimney stack. INTERIOR converted to offices. NOTE: Frank Cooper's marmalade was originally a by-product of the family grocery business in High Street, Oxford, but the business grew to such an extent that this factory was built in 1902 to satisfy demand.

Listing NGR: SP5064906233