ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS

ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389641
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-2002
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389641
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-2002
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH 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:: ENTRANCE GATEPIERS, GATES AND FORECOURT POOL SURROUND AT PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD
Statutory Address:: PEARCE'S LEATHER WORKS, WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Billing
National Grid Reference:: SP8009662793

Details

725/0/10033 10-JAN-02

NORTHAMPTON WELLINGBOROUGH ROAD Billing Park (Southwest side) Entrance gatepiers and gates and forecourt pool surround at Pearce's Leather Works

GV II

Gatepiers and gates and forecourt pool surround. 1939. By Wilfrid Lawson Carter. Piers are of rendered and whitewashed brick with brick plinths and stone caps. Main piers have taller stone caps pierced with square and rectangular holes for lighting. Iron carriage gates between have geometrical design and there are pedestrian gates of similar design to either side of main piers. Lower piers beyond. On the axis between the entrance gates and the factory entrance is the long forecourt pool which has a flat plain surround with canted corners at the entrance end. The gatepiers and gates and pool form part of a significant group with Pearce's Leather Works factory and generator and garage block (qv).

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 488331
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.