Album Terracotta from tarboat

Cocoa House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:46:57 +0000

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Whilst sitting on a bus in Chester I espied this sign through the window whilst we waited at the traffic lights.

This building dates from 1880 and was owned by a company that operated four such establishments at one time. It was a part of the temperance movement offering an alternative to pubs. As with most temperance businesses it closed in the first half of the twentieth century, In an ironic twist the premises now house a bar.

Hot + Cold Food ask at bar

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:24:54 +0000

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The Bestwood Hotel was already closed and up for sale when I took this photograph. It was built in 1896 for the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company in the Italian Gothic style with plenty of terracotta detailing. It has since been converted to apartments.

Castle Buildings

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:45:14 +0000

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Castle Buildings (8-18 Castle Place, Belfast) is a four-storey building designed by Blackwood & Jury; built 1904-1905 for C. McCullagh & Co. silk mercers and milliners, and extended in 1907. The building was later altered by Samuel Stevenson & Sons Architects between 1927-1928. It is listed B1.

No.4, Broad Street

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:46:12 +0000

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Although fallen on hard times this building on Broad Street in Hanley is certainly attractive. Built as a house in 1878 it was occupied by a dentist who had his surgery and offices on the ground floor with living accommodation above. it was later used by the British Gaslight Company as offices until their gasworks was sold to Stoke-on-Trent Borough Council in 1922. In the mid-1970s the Co-operative Bank had a branch here whilst the Power Group of the National Union of Mineworkers was upstairs.

Technical Terracotta

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:03:18 +0000

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The former Technical School on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness was built 1900-1903 for Barrow Corporation to the design of Woodhouse and Willoughby. The building contractor was W Gradwell and Co. It is listed Grade II.

Stamford House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:12:18 +0000

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This Commercial building in Altrincham, with offices over shops, was built in 1904-5, by Charles Heathcote & Sons, for J.H.Brown Esq. a developer who lived in Ashley. It incorporates a lot of buff terracotta ornamentation. Formerly known as Station Buildings this Grade II listed building was refurbished in 2014 to provide commercial accommodation and contemporary apartments.

Langley Buildings

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:22:33 +0000

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This was built as a home trade and mail-order warehouse and newspaper printing office, 1908, for J.D.Williams & Co. Occupied in 1913 by J.D.Williams & Co and by Daily News Printing Office.

There is so much detail to see in this view of the lower rear facade. The brown faience around the paired doors and the Diocletian window above The keystones of the elliptical headed windows forming brackets to the three-light oriels. Then there is the stained glass, including Welsh dragons in the stairwindows.

The face on the other end at Dale Street features reddish brown and brown faience throughout.

It is listed Grade II.

National Bank

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:54:22 +0000

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The former National Bank Building at 62 High Street in central Belfast. it was constructed between 1893-1897 and built to designs by architect William Batt. The National Bank operated from the building until absorption by the Bank of Ireland in 1966. It now houses a cafe bar.

Sadly the terracotta has been painted over and the bottom storey messed with. The balcony at the centre of the first floor has been removed.

Houldsworth Arms

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:20:30 +0000

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The Houldsworth Arms in Reddish is a very large urban public house which was extensively remodelled between the wars. The facia is in cream terracotta with a semi-circular portico supported by (loosely) Doric columns.

Church House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:29:23 +0000

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Church House is a Grade II listed office building built c1870, which is prominently positioned on the corner of Hanover Street and Paradise Street in Liverpool.

High Row

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:35:44 +0000

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Terracotta ornamentation on the upper storeys of 24a High Row, Darlington. Ground level features the usual corporate business frontage.

Depot

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:36:04 +0000

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The first electric tramway route by the Ashton-Under-Lyne Corporation began in 1902 between Ashton-under-Lyne and Hurst. A maintenance depot for the electric trams was created in 1902, on Mossley Road in Ashton-Under-Lyne for the repair and maintenance on the electric trams. This building was later repurposed for electric trolleybuses and then repurposed into business offices for present day use. The Corporation coat of arms is incorporated in a panel over the original office section of the depot.

Buddleia

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:35:01 +0000

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Terracotta on the Town Hall Hotel in Eccles which was opened in 1904 by Holt's Brewery. This was built on the site of the local cock-fighting pits. The buddleia is not a good thing and is no doubt causing serious damage to the structure. The pub is long closed and planning permission was granted for conversion into flats. I doesn't appear that this has actually happened and the building remains derelict.

Free Library

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:59:13 +0000

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Penzance School of Art and Free Library, designed by Silvanus Trevail, was opened in March 1881. The Grade II listed building was financed by the gift of land and other donations. During the late 1880s there was remodelling of the façade, and a museum and science school were added, all designed by Henry White FRIBA, a former student. The school is currently run by Penwith College but the library closed in 2016.

1903

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:27:25 +0000

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Abandoned light industrial premises dated 1903 in terracotta on Ludgate Hill in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.

Railway Institute

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:23:12 +0000

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The railway town, or perhaps village is more accurate, of Melton Constable in Norfolk lost most of it's importance with the closure of much of the former Midland & Great Northern Railway from 28 February 1959, closing completely five years later.

The Railway Institute was built in 1896, and extended in 1912, by the railway for the benefit of its workers as reading rooms, wash rooms and general recreation until the closure of the railway works in the early 1960’s. At that point a group of local people (and by then) ex-employees banded together and bought the freehold of the Railway Institute from the British Railways board, and formed a trust under the name of the Country Club that endures to this day.

Oddfellows Hall

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:53:42 +0000

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Disused Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Lodge Hall on Bridge Street in Boston. The building has fallen on hard times but the terracotta facia still stands out along with the memorial on the wall to the members killed in World War 1.

Industry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:32:54 +0000

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Droylsden formed its own industrial Co-operative Society in December 1861, with 71 members and £104 4s 1d. The Society thrived and in 1876 it opened a large meeting hall above its shop facilities. Subsequent extensions included this 1911 building embellished in stone and terracotta. It's good to see the industrious bees at work. The building is no longer in Co-op use.

Campion Chambers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:48:29 +0000

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Campion Chambers, 23-25 St Nicholas Place, Leicester features cream terracotta and a nice art deco font. I guess it dates from the 1920s. The replacement windows don't help and I have cut off the garish subway frontage on the ground floor level.

Departure

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:14:23 +0000

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Midland Railway Company's station at Leicester was rebuilt to the design of Charles Trubshaw in 1895. This is the departure section of the frontage with terracotta ornamentation and the initials of the company in the wrought iron over the side gates.