Mobbs Miller House Including Front Walls, Railings and Gates
MOBBS MILLER HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391021
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Mobbs Miller House Including Front Walls, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- MOBBS MILLER HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391021
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Mobbs Miller House Including Front Walls, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOBBS MILLER HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHRISTCHURCH 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:
- MOBBS MILLER HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHRISTCHURCH 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 77276 61208
Details
725/0/10037 CHRISTCHURCH ROAD 23-APR-04 Mobbs Miller House including front wal ls, railings and gates
II Boot and shoe factory. 1922-5. By the in-house architect L.G. Elkins. For the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Red brick with darker brown brick centre block and ornaments and also stone dressings. Parapeted roofs. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys, in small part with attic. North-light sheds to rear behind the 2 adjoining frontage ranges to Christchurch Road and Ardington Road complete a square plan. The road fronts have long 2-storey ranges of windows of 8/8 sashes over 12/12 sashes alternating with giant rusticated pilasters with stone capitals. The main entrance has a columned frontispiece with Venetian window over set in an aedicule with shallow open pediment. Stone attic over. The 3 ground floor windows either side have round-arched heads with elaborate rusticated surrounds. The side entrance to Ardington Road has a 4-window range of 3 storeys with giant pilasters and the windows linked vertically by brackets and stone aprons. Along the fronts are low walls with ornamental iron railings and gates. HISTORY. The factory was used by the CWS until its acquisition by the last manufacturers, Mobbs Miller, in 1969, and then was in plastic unit sole and plastic heel production until the 1980's. SOURCES. EH Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Survey, Site Report No.105. Morrison, Kathryn A., with Bond, Ann, 'Built to Last' The Boot and Shoe Buildings of Northamptonshire', forthcoming, pp.8 and 19 and fig.41.
This is the last great factory of the boot and shoe industry built at a time when the industry had already peaked and very few new factories were erected. The CWS had the great advantage of a large dependable customer base. The factory was carefully designed to blend into a suburban setting close to Abington Park with its finely detailed fronts giving the appearance of municipal offices or an educational establishment.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Bond, A, Built to Last: The Buildings of the Northamptonshire Boot and Shoe Industry, (2004), 8 19
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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