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factory — Rock Street

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Corner-sited attached single-bay two-storey former factory, built 1906, with gabled tower to side wall right hand side. Now in use as retail outlet. Pitched corrugated-sheet roof with timber bargeboard to gable end. Pitched natural slate roof to tower. Snecked sandstone ashlar walls. Timber pilaster and entablature shopfront to ground floor. Artificial slate cladding to side wall left hand side. Nap rendered and red brick walls to side wall right hand side. 'Co-operative Wholesale Society' written on side wall. Timber window in segmental-arched opening with steel horizontal pivot opening light, moulded limestone sill and bricked surround to first floor. Fixed timber window and timber matchboard double leaf doors to ground floor surrounded by timber plaster and entablature shopfront. Cast-iron fire escape to side wall. Side entrance shows old railway tracks in situ.

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