Former Co-operative Wholesale Society Building is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. University building.

Former Co-operative Wholesale Society Building

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1997
Type
University building
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built of coursed rock-faced stone with a slate roof. Three storeys, the elevation facing the street being of 4 bays, two central bays with plate glass windows to the first floor, separated by a wooden Ionic pilaster, the upper part having coloured glass in leaded lights, and at the centre of each, a circular pivot-hung vent. Above, a fascia has DRAPERY AND MILLINERY in Arts and Crafts lettering against a roughened background. Dentilled cornice. The top floor has two simple rectangular openings and projecting eaves. The two narrower end bays have flanking pilasters and rise above the eaves to a small gable. Similar window on the first floor but a circular window with an aproned architrave and exaggerated keystone to the attic floor. On the ground floor, channel rusticated piers, the left bay retaining a segmental arched opening, now blocked. The ground floor elevation of the 3 southern bays has been altered.

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