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Ashington Co-Operative Society Premises 1041396

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• entry-date: 2013-01-29
• listed-building: 1041396
• name: Ashington Co-Operative Society Premises
• notes: ASHINGTON WOODHORN ROAD NZ 28 NE (North side) Ashington 2/50 Ashington Co-operative Society premises II Shopping arcade with offices and ballroom above. 1924 by Harrison, Ash and Blythe of Newcastle, ground floor remodelled as department store 1976. Front and stair hall in white terracotta moulded to resemble tooled ashlar, returns and rear yellow brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3; red tile roof. Baroque style. Street front 3 storeys, 13 windows. Ground floor has tall plinth and wide 5-bay arcade, formerly open, with 1976 shop fronts in lugged archi-traves; short bay at each end has channelled rustication and panelled double doors, with radial-glazed overlights, in surrounds with deeply-inswept jambs and moulded lintels. Upper floors, above broad band, have 9-bay Giant Ionic Order. 1st- floor windows in architraves; frieze with leaded inscription ASHINGTON INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD; mansard roof. To each side a broader rusticated bay with a giant arch enclosing tripartite 1st floor window and segment-headed 2nd floor window, below frieze with key pattern and parapet stepped up at centre; lower end bays have broad pilasters, windows in linked architrave and shallow- gabled parapet. Metal-framed casements with diagonal glazing bars, replaced on 1st floor of left rusticated bay and adjacent bay of centre. Right return shows large boarded door of original covered cart dock. Interior: stair hall has rusticated rear wall and closed-string imperial stair with moulded balusters and handrail (and additional bronze handrail with scrolled ends, on cast-iron standards) leading up to balconies. Panelled dado, openings in architraves, panelled plaster ceiling. 2nd floor ballroom, now warehouse, with segmental proscenium arch and arched ceiling with patterned plaster ribs. ,
• reference: 1041396
• start-date: 1986-12-18