Enterprise Factory Expert Developments Ltd
ENTERPRISE FACTORY EXPERT DEVELOPMENTS LTD, BECTIVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Enterprise Factory Expert Developments Ltd
- Statutory Address:
- ENTERPRISE FACTORY EXPERT DEVELOPMENTS LTD, BECTIVE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Enterprise Factory Expert Developments Ltd
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTERPRISE FACTORY EXPERT DEVELOPMENTS LTD, BECTIVE ROAD
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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:
- ENTERPRISE FACTORY EXPERT DEVELOPMENTS LTD, BECTIVE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingsthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75330 63499
Details
725/0/10036 BECTIVE ROAD 23-APR-04 (South side) Enterprise Factory (Expert Development s Ltd.)
II Boot and shoe factory. 1902. For the Lee brothers, trading as Abraham Lee. Extended by 1924. Red brick with stone and timber dressings painted white and slate roofs with many large skylights lighting the north-light sheds. Blue brick projecting stack on right gable end. Single-storey original range has Queen Anne style front. Plainer 2-storey extension to left. Central entrance to earlier range has wide entrance with rusticated segmental arch. There is a Venetian window over in a gabled attic with the end treated as an open pediment. To either side of this attic are a pair of consoles with an LB monogram in pierced stonework, probably for Lee Brothers. The main entrance has, to either side, 3 windows with rusticated jambs and segmental arched heads. Above is a timber modillion cornice. North-light sheds extend to rear. To left of this range is the extension which was in existence by 1924 and which is of 2 storeys and has 4 windows to 1st floor under shallow segmental arches and 3 to ground floor with a doorway to right. 2-storey ranges to rear. HISTORY. Abraham Lee, boot and shoe manufacturer, is noted as being here in 1906 and it is known as the Enterprise Factory in 1916 and 1924, the firm still being here in 1954. SOURCES. EH Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Site Report No.154. Morrison, Kathryn A., with Bond, Ann, 'Built to Last? The Boot and Shoe Buildings of Northamptonshire', forthcoming, p.17 and fig.36.
This purpose-built boot and shoe factory has a carefully detailed front, and not only was it one of the first single-storey boot and shoe factories but it is one of the few pre-1st World War ones to survive. 'Built to Last?' has identified that the first footwear factories to be constructed entirely as single-storey were built in the 1890's (following other industries and also American competitors in the trade), but the early Albion Works has been demolished and the large Manfield factory of 1892 has been demolished except for its street range. Very few survive and this is a fine example.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492706
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Bond, A, Built to Last: The Buildings of the Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry, (2004), 17
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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