Former Globe Leather Works
FORMER GLOBE LEATHER WORKS, 4-6, DUNSTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Former Globe Leather Works
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GLOBE LEATHER WORKS, 4-6, DUNSTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Former Globe Leather Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GLOBE LEATHER WORKS, 4-6, DUNSTER STREET
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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:
- FORMER GLOBE LEATHER WORKS, 4-6, DUNSTER STREET
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 75870 60923
Details
725/0/10039 DUNSTER STREET 02-DEC-03 4-6 Former Globe Leather Works
GV II Former curriers and leather merchants works. Late 1880's. Red brick with stone dressing and parapeted slate roofs. C17 Low Countries style. 3 gables facing, the central more ornamental with canted pilasters and elaborately shaped gable. 3 storeys with basement and attic. 12-window range at first floor with further window on left over entrance door. Casements to left and centre, iron framed windows to right. Iron framed windows on second floor to whole fa?ade and small windows in gable attics. Ground floor has casements to left and centre gables and 1/1 sashes to right with centre left doorway, all these last with stone moulded cornices, the doorway with stone moulded doorcase. Carriage entrance to far right.
INTERIOR. Iron columns and joists support the various floors and there is a queen post roof construction. Upper floor has evidence of slatted floor construction, probably associated with drying.
The Globe Leather works was most probably built for James Collier and Co., a firm of Northampton curriers and fancy-leather merchants established in 1878. The firm operated the factory until the 1950's. It is a finely detailed building in the contemporary London 'Pont Street Dutch' style, with the allusions to wealthy C17 Dutch and Flemish merchants houses and warehouses being particularly appropriate to the boot and shoe industry's rapid expansion. The Goad plans show that the west range was a warehouse and that the other 2 ranges constituted the factory with leather drying on the second and attic floors. The building forms part of the most significant group of buildings of the boot and shoe industry in Northampton.
REFERENCES.
English Heritage Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry Report, pp.4 and 14-15, and Site Report No. 52.
Goad Insurance maps 1899, 1905 and 1912.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry Report,
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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