Barratt Shoe Factory
BARRATT SHOE FACTORY, KINGSTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249269
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Barratt Shoe Factory
- Statutory Address:
- BARRATT SHOE FACTORY, KINGSTHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249269
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Barratt Shoe Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARRATT SHOE FACTORY, KINGSTHORPE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARRATT SHOE FACTORY, KINGSTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75339 61923
Details
In the entry for
KINGSTHORPE ROAD
11/602 Barratt Shoe Factory
The following shall be added at the end of the discription:-
'The large factory extension to the rear of the front block is not of special interest'.
The List was previously amended in respect of this entry on 27 November 1985.
------------------------------------ In the entry for KINGSTHORPE ROAD 0/216 Barratt Shoe Factory
The map reference number shall be amended to read: 11/602
The list was amended in respect of this entry on 27 November 1985
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KINGSTHORPE ROAD 1. 5327 BARRATT SHOE FACTORY SP 76 SE SP/216 0/216 II
2. Shoe and boot factory. Front range facing Kingsthorpe Road dated 1913. Macvicar Anderson for Barratt's Shoes in an exuberantly Neo-Baroque style. Stone, brick, terracotta details; steel frame. 3 storeys. Symmetrical front of 9 bays defined by full height pilaster buttresses. Stone plinth. Central doorway framed by a projecting porch with broken segmental pediment supported on Roman Ionic columns and deep entablatures with carved frieze blocks. Large arched openings in stone to either side with metal framed 3-light mullion and transom windows except for end bay to left which has cart entry under similar arch with fanlight grille of radiating metal bars. Stone spandrels above arches divided by raised key blocks. First and second floor bays are each subdivided by an intermediate pier. Pilaster buttresses and piers have alternating bands of brick and stone. Metal frame casement windows with transoms on first floor and stone spandrels above, with carved aprons. Lower windows on second floor except for the bay to either side of central bay. These have tall windows crowned by stone segmental pedimented features with boldly Estd Built moulded wreaths enclosing inscriptions: on left, on right. A similar 1903 1913 pedimented feature over each end bay enclosing a circular window in a wreathed frame with side drops. Between pedimented features to left and right, a dentil eaves cornice crowned by balustrades of open stone letters : FOOTSHAPE to left and BOOT WORKS to right. A circular clock set in a segmental headed frame over the central bay. Stone and brick gate piers, brick stone capped plinth for former boundary railing.
Listing NGR: SP7537861981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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