ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS

ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS, 124, ST MARYS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228030
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS
Statutory Address:: ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS, 124, ST MARYS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228030
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS, 124, ST MARYS 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:: ORIGINAL NORTH WEST BUILDING AT HARBOROUGH RUBBER WORKS, 124, ST MARYS ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 73927 87258

Details

The following building shall be added:-

MARKET HARBOROUGH ST MARY'S ROAD SP 7387 2/198 No 124 (Original North West Building at Harborough Rubber Works

II

Flour mills, now part of rubber factory. Circa 1860, for John Bland; rubber works since 1894. Polychromatic brickwork; red brick in Flemish bond with blue and white brick bands and cornice and white brick window arches. Slate roofs with stone-coped gable ends.

Rectangular on plan, the engine house probably at west end.

3 storeys and attic. 3-bay north front, each bay with 2 round- headed windows, the bay separated by flat pilaster buttresses with Lombardic frieze and moulded brick eaves cornice above, of polychromatic brick. The windows have cast-iron frames with glazing bars, white brick arches and blue and white brick bands at impost level across front and moulded brick dentils to cills between the pilaster buttresses. The band and cill courses continue to right into 2 bays of one and 2 storeys with similar windows. Bands in gable ends, the west with cast-iron windows with glazing bars, the east with loft door and hoist. Later buildings against rear (south) elevation and 1961 building attached to east end linking original mill with 1925 rubber works to east. Situated on north side of the River Wellands.

Interior: Wooden floor beams supported on thin iron columns.

Note: Originally a steam-driven flour mill built for John Bland. In 1894 became factory of Harborough Rubber Company who made bicycle pedal blocks and pedal blocks etc for automobiles. The name 'Dainite' was adodpted during the First World War when the factory continuously worked through night and day.

Listing NGR: SP7392787258

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Legacy System number:: 402532
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.