FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY

FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY, CLEVELAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205559
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY
Statutory Address:: FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY, CLEVELAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205559
Date first listed:: 31-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY, CLEVELAND ROAD

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:: FORMER BAKER'S SHOE FACTORY, CLEVELAND ROAD

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

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 91856 98186

Details

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198SE CLEVELAND ROAD 895-1/14/210 (South side) Former Baker's Shoe Factory

GV II

Shoe factory, now divided into units. 1868, extended to rear c1900. Brick with stone dressings; hipped slate roof and brick stacks. Courtyard plan. 3-storeys; 8-bay range, first 2 and last 3 break forward. Some blue brick banding, 2nd floor sill course and top cornice. 1st 2 bays have giant arched recesses with rubbed brick Venetian arches and hood moulds; treatment continued to next 3 bays of 1st floor. 1st 3 windows to ground floor are large, one now entrance with those flanking with plate glass; 2 single-chamfered mullioned and transomed windows of 3 lights to right end flank entrance with segmental-pointed head and shafts, hood with oriel above. 1st floor has segmental-headed windows, the 1st 2 with small-paned iron glazing, the rest with horned sashes, but 7th bay has canted stone oriel of 1:2:1 lights. 2nd floor has paired windows with small-paned iron glazing, but end 3 windows have horned sashes. 4th bay has segmental-pointed cart entrance with double-chamfered arch, hood taken over panel above; dated foundation stone to right. Right return lateral stack. Left return to Vicarage Rd has 3 bays continuing facade treatment and further 10 bays with utilitarian treatment; small-paned iron glazing to windows and blocked basement openings. Extension of c1900 of 9 bays, with shaped gables facing Vicarage Road and of 5 bays to Powlett Street with shaped gable and central tripartite ashlar-faced entrance bay with clock tower. Courtyard has segmental-headed windows with small-paned iron glazing; cylindrical stack on square base now truncated at eaves level. A good example of a courtyard-plan factory with a finely detailed facade; an early example of a factory in this industry.

Listing NGR: SO9185698186

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