1 Silver Street

1 Silver Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0BN

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A house of 1778, with a C20 shop front. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189106
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: 1 Silver Street
Statutory Address:: 1 Silver Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0BN

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Date:: 2002-04-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189106
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-2022
List Entry Name:: 1 Silver Street
Statutory Address 1:: 1 Silver Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0BN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1 Silver Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0BN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kettering Town
National Grid Reference:: SP 86797 78858

Summary

A house of 1778, with a C20 shop front.

Reasons for Designation

Legacy Record – This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

History

The historic core of Kettering centres around St Peter and St Paul church, Market Place to its north-west, and the immediate network of streets around it. Originally a Saxon village and later a market town, Kettering was for much of its history a relatively small linear settlement comprising what are now Gold Street, the High Street, Market Street, and Market Place. This core layout of medieval streets persists today, though the majority of the surviving buildings date from the C19 and early C20. Kettering was at the convergence of several important routes and benefited from this and from the wool industry, but it was the arrival in 1857 of the Midland Railway which enabled larger industries, particularly the boot and shoe making industry, to expand the town significantly beyond its historic core. The wider town is still characterised by numerous former factories and associated terraced housing.

The site of 1 Silver Street has been developed since at least the C16. Maps from the 1720s show this area of the town densely occupied. A date stone in the gable of the north elevation appears to read 1778. The building was a house until the ground floor was converted into a shop in the C20. Externally, the building has been much altered in the C19 and C20.

Details

MATERIALS: the front (western) façade of the building is of red brick, with detail in stucco and stone. The gabled ends are painted brick with ironstone rubblestone in the gables. This is painted over to the north but left uncovered to the south gable. The south gable has a large expanse of concrete render. The chimneys are of limestone. The roof is pitched with gables to the north and south and covered with slate.

PLAN: roughly rectangular on plan with the principal facade facing onto Silver Street to the west.

EXTERIOR: three-storey townhouse. The western façade is in a symmetrical arrangement of three bays. A plain plat band divides the first and second floors on both elevations. Painted stone pilasters with prominent stone cornices decorate each corner of the building. On the west elevation, a stone cornice runs above the upper windows directly below the roofline.

The first-floor windows comprise two C19 oriel bays to north and south, and a central two-over-two sash window with a prominent moulded window surround and projecting keystone. The second-floor windows comprise three two-over-two sash windows again with moulded window surrounds and projecting keystones.

The northern façade is constructed from bricks as with the front façade, currently painted, and the mouldings from the western façade continue on this façade. As with the western façade, there are two painted stone pilasters to this elevation, one at the east and one at the western corner. In the centre of the gable of the north elevation, a limestone stone with the numbers ‘1778’ and the letters ‘J^M’ may indicate the original construction date of the building. The chimney on the northern façade is of dressed limestone. This façade has no window openings above the ground floor shopfront.

The southern façade is largely obscured by the adjoining building and by render, however, the gable end is visible. This is constructed from ironstone rubblestone and has limestone quoins visible on the rear corner and part of the gable. The chimney above is of dressed limestone. The shopfront is late C20 of plate glass and has no historic elements.

Listing NGR: SP8678778792

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 230113
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Northampton Historic Environment records 7198/0/59, accessed 16 February 2021 from [https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1044&uid=MNN106837]
Other
"Parishes: Kettering," in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1930), 218-226. British History Online, accessed January 25 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp218-226.
Map of Kettering c. 1720, accessed 16 February 2021 at [http://britishlibrary.georeferencer.com/maps/a6b9887c-b961-47b1-8460-899d17408fc3/]
Mid twentieth century photograph of No. 1, accessed 19 February 2021 at [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/01/05/56/0105566f8eb7a3a21a54c2baa39a7130.jpg]

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.